A Seafire

[browningautorifle]

With the recent anniversary of D-Day again I start looking at pics...this one caught my attention. The numbers on it make it easy to find flying and at airshows, but what drew me was the thought of the young guys of 19 or 20 yrs flying them back when they were needed. They came forward and did this thing and those that made it went back to try to re-build their lives after. Imagine one day you're doing this, about 454 MPH (Mk 22), and the next you're in college trying to start again. Teachers asking "Where is your mind?" Fellow students trying to haze you by wearing a beany with a propeller on top...just to belong.

One day you're chasing V rockets over the channel and the next...

I'm glad I was young enough to have time to become friends with many of these guys before they left us. I don't recall any that wouldn't open up to me about their experiences. Many things they told me were applied later when I needed them...

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