CHURCHILL'S NAVIGATOR

摘要

An challenging posting in North America was coming to an end and like it or not Fit Lt John L Mitchell DFC looked set to be 'flying a desk' upon his return to the UK. It was September 1942 and the inevitable occurred, he watched the paperwork grow at the Air Ministry's Directorate of Navigation Training. John takes up the story: Although a desk job, I was able in the November to wangle a weeks flying with 24 Squadron at Hendon, navigating both [Lockheed] Hudsons and Electras on a series of UK trips... While I was there I caught sight of a strange new aircraft in the famous Grahame White hangar.