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