West Indian aircrew WWII

[DavidIsby]

Try your local reference library to see which libraries hold International History Review. Many scholarly journals now have pay-for on0line references. A local university library may be available to help.

I recall the article makes a point that race relations in the RAF were way better than in the British Army in WW2. This is something everyone in wartime Britain lnew, but I could not find a citable source for this when I was helping out Lon Nordeen with his excellent history of the Egyptian Air Force back in the early 90s.

The Eighth Passenger is an often-reprinted RAF wartime memoir. Forget the name of the Ontario Lt. Governnor (first name Lincoln?) but this should be finable on-line.

Add to your list E. Seaga, prime minister on Jamaica in the 70s. He was another example of pilots of single-engine military aircraft having problems running a country. He flew Spitfires late war, but I believe never saw combat.

There was also a West Indian sergeant-pilot who flew off a Spitfire from a carrier to Malta. He is briefly mentioned in, I believe, One Man's Window but should receive more detailed treatment in the standard sources such as Malta: The Spitfire Year.