Bel, I had forgotten about Betty's in York - my father used to take us there for a treat when he was based at RAF Church Fenton back in 1959-60.
What is so hard to remember is how young those boys were - my father was an engineer and a sergeant at 18. One of his jobs was to go to the cockpits of any returning bombers that crashed and get the flight recorder out - he sometimes had to climb over the pilots' bodies to do it, but apparently there were souvenir hunters who would rob the aircraft if the RAF didn't get there first. Can you imagine now, sending an 18 year old to do something like that.
I think he and the others would be really chuffed to think that we are remembering them now - and if you go to St Clement Dane's, the Book of Remembrance is displayed in the Crypt.
I have just found this link which has lots of information
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