In the Ottawa Evening Citizen, Reader David Forbes told of a chance meeting in a cafe with a Royal Canadian Air Force flyer:
He was sitting at the next table when I sat downa fresh-faced young man. . . . He did not look a day older than 21, I decided. He just sat there looking at the wall opposite and, after a moment, produced a packet of cigarets and began to fumble in his pocket for a match. I struck my lighter and ... he smiled his thanks.
"Have you been over yet?" I asked.
"Yes, since before Dunkirk."
"What was it like?"
"They'd...
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