Good lord! Roger,
You actually allow Memsahib input to the guidance of your conveyance?
They actually have little ability in the spatial awareness requirement
area. 'Tis a proven fact! Have you ever "studied" a quilt? Absolutely no
resemblance to any sort of map or chart that would get a chap anywhere.
Sort of thing best left to chaps like Mal.
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 22:35 +0200, John Rabson wrote:
On 13 May 2011, at 22:04CEST, Roger Lapthorn wrote:
> I've just finished reading "The Railway Man" by Eric Lomax, a
> must-read book about his imprisonment and torture by the Japanese in
> WW2 and his later meeting and forgiving his torturer. It had me in
> floods of tears I was so moved. It was amazing what these guys did
> to be able to receive an allied signal from the depths of the jungle
> with next to nothing to hand.
>
I once worked with Sgt Len Beckett who had been an FEPOW. When he was
a prisoner it was his job to crank the generator with which their
clandestine radio was powered. He received additional rations to give
him the energy to do so.
He never talked about this period of his life. The information about
his activities I got from G3HJL who worked in the same lab but was
even more circumspect about his wartime activities.
John
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