Kilt #48 is Here! RAF Tartan by Kathy Lare

[Raftartan]

Ron can I use one of these images on the www.kamrafa.co.uk website beside the request for any information on your father's service with the RAF. I noticed a reference to someone thinking about making an unauthorised copy of the Royal Air force tartan which you correctly define as having a copy right which was a specific requirement before the tartan could be registered with that name.Any one contravening that copyright needs to be aware of that we will use all necessary legal options to protect this tartan. My preference would be that it should be recognised that a percentage of all sales are donated to the Royal Air Force charity fund which is only possible if the sourcing of the tartan is protected.

[Riverkilt]

Certainly RafTartan,

Let me know if you want me to send it direct or if you just wanna pull it out of my gallery or here.

My father was an idealistic Montana boy with a solid Scottish line on his father's side and a solid English line on his mother's.

A family story is that after he learned to fly at the Johnson Air Service in Missoula and the war started he went to Spokane, Washington to enlist in the RAF. When the RAF folks in Spokane checked his log book they told him he didn't have enough hours to meet their requirements and suggested he go down the hall to an empty room and "acquire" more flight time. He did and was accepted and they then shipped him off to British Refresher School in Imperial, California.

Finishing that he was sent by train to Nova Scotia, by ship to Scotland then to the receiving center in Bournemouth, and from there to the 59th Operational Training Unit where he got to be trained and in on the action all at the same time.

Ron

[Tattoo Bradley]

A family story is that after he learned to fly at the Johnson Air Service in Missoula and the war started he went to Spokane, Washington to enlist in the RAF. When the RAF folks in Spokane checked his log book they told him he didn't have enough hours to meet their requirements and suggested he go down the hall to an empty room and "acquire" more flight time. He did and was accepted and they then shipped him off to British Refresher School in Imperial, California.

Finishing that he was sent by train to Nova Scotia, by ship to Scotland then to the receiving center in Bournemouth, and from there to the 59th Operational Training Unit where he got to be trained and in on the action all at the same time.

Ron

What an amazing story, Ron. I love the old stories about the American boys who joined the RAF. Awesome awesome.