George Casey of London, Ont., reminds us that ‘line books’ were kept at many air force messes in England during the war. In them were recorded the most outrageous claims of the line shooters, in the vein of “There I was, upside down and nothing on the clock…”
Casey says a particular one he remembers at a Royal Air Force station was attributed to a permanent force squadron leader who, when asked his air force number, replied: “I never had a number–when I joined the air force everyone knew each other.”
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