but I was very excited to be in the front line,
as it were, and I knew immediately I got to Scampton,
that I was in the front line.
This was an operational squadron,
and not playing games like most servicemen
were doing at that time.
And I was very excited to be here,
and very proud to be there.
Very proud, I mean,
I was a 19 year old.
I was streetwise.
I wasn't, brought up in Eastern London,
I was streetwise.
But a 19 year old in 1940 was a very,
unsophisticated individual.
I had never bought any clothes for myself
before I went in.
My mum bought my clothes.
I had to have a suit for work.
She used to come to shop,
my mum chose it, and my mum paid for it.
I was very unsophisticated,
but I knew I was in the front line.
