Story of War a RIAF Pilot Diary 1938 to 1944
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 4:24 am
I stumbled on this blog prepared by son of Flt Lt D Wood, who although a Sandhurst graduate learned flying in Madras and joined fledgling RIAF. Interestingly he was trained in Iraq ( Habbaniya) and served in Afghan/ RAZMAK area same places coincidentally where the wars are still going on.
His dairy is very straightforward and candid, does mention renowned RIAF officers and pioneers Mehar Singh ( his name came up when pilot friend of his in plane was shotdown, surrounded shot by pashtuns and then his body was disfigured, Mehar Singh in a similar situation took the machine gun off and with plane compass managed to escape back to the fort) Arjan Singh, Latif, Manjumdar, Mukherjee, etc. He also writes about his shikar in various parts of India, flying from Lahore to Bathinda, Jalandhar, Nakodar etc and various places in india. due to restricted supply of guns and ammo with war, how prices spiked up and he bought a 22 winchester rifle and ammo, the relative cost of guns etc. Blog is about life as a general in that era.
http://storyofwar.com/
His dairy is very straightforward and candid, does mention renowned RIAF officers and pioneers Mehar Singh ( his name came up when pilot friend of his in plane was shotdown, surrounded shot by pashtuns and then his body was disfigured, Mehar Singh in a similar situation took the machine gun off and with plane compass managed to escape back to the fort) Arjan Singh, Latif, Manjumdar, Mukherjee, etc. He also writes about his shikar in various parts of India, flying from Lahore to Bathinda, Jalandhar, Nakodar etc and various places in india. due to restricted supply of guns and ammo with war, how prices spiked up and he bought a 22 winchester rifle and ammo, the relative cost of guns etc. Blog is about life as a general in that era.
http://storyofwar.com/