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YOUNG, Douglas. The Dangerous Sea and the Sky. 248p. London: Avon Books, 1994. ISBN: 1897960360.

The engaging biography of a young insurance clerk who volunteered for the RAF in 1940. After over two years of training in the UK and Canada first as a wireless operator then as a navigator he joined 489 New Zealand Squadron at Leuchars in November 1943 in the new Beaufighter Mark X. They operated in the North Sea on anti-shipping strikes. The squadron then moved to Norfolk and operated off the Dutch Coast during and after the Normandy invasion. After a brief spell based near the Moray Firth, promotion brought him a role as a navigation instructor based at East Fortune until demobbed in February 1946.

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Autobiography; The Royal Air Force;

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