[DavidIsby]

There was an interesting article on blacks in the RAF in WW2 in International History Review a few years ago (I think...this is the schiolarly journal done at Simon Fraser University in BC). Included a story about an Ashanti fighter pilot who used to identfy himself for the benefit of the German Y-Service when over the continent.

The Eighth Passenger is a memoir by a member of a Lancaster crew that included a Jamaican rear gunner. I seem to recall that, some years ago, Ontario had a black lieutenant governor appointed who had been an RCAF Lancaster rear gunner.