The squadron leader’s someone called Wetherby, I think Greg told me.” “If he hadn’t crashed, then he would have come back, wouldn’t he?” “Not necessarily. It’s a bit tricky because the work they’re doing is all so hush-hush, but they’re perfectly nice chaps. What you should do is try and talk to the people where he’s based. He was a natural, having been in fighters.” “ Do you know any more? Is he alive?” “ I’m afraid I really don’t know. They can land on about five hundred yards of grass. He’d been training on the quiet to do some pick-up. Apparently he was in a Lysander, which is a little single-engined monoplane. They haven’t heard a squeak since.” “But… he told me you couldn’t crash a Halifax.” “He wasn’t in a Halifax. As you know, he’s with the Halifax chaps and I’ve only got this secondhand, but I gather he went down last week. Thought I’d-” “What is it? What’s happened?” “ It’s not very good news, I’m afraid.
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