[pwilson]

Hi again. Yes I have read the front page. My comments in red.

'I had by this time acquired a History Degree (BA) with the Open University and decided to put it to use.'
Funny how soeone with a degree in history doesn't know how to reference his sources!

'I had taken the Diaries to Hospital with me. One could just open it and read of a raid then doze off and think about it. The percentage of survival I had been gently given caused me to look more closely at the loss reports...' Which loss reports? Bill Chorley, UK National Archives, Air Historical Branch?

'I know that there are journals and books galore that also publish the names,' mmmm.

'This is what you are looking at now. I spent eleven years doing it. It will also find a raid by date, include Sqdn details and a lot of other information.'

Wonder how this was done in 11 years? 55,000 crew and thousands of aircraft! Good going when it's taken me 6 years to do 2,300 crew, by travelling all around europe, interviewing veterans, hundreds of hours in Archives etc.

Thanks for you input Ross,
Peter