Luckily he changed his mind and gave them to me, and I started researching Fg Off Stringer's amazing career and short life.finding records of Blenheim missions over Norway, gun camera footage of his kills over the Bay of Biscay, Beaufighter attack missions from Malta and sadly ending clinging to a fuel tank from his shotdown Beaufighter. Very geeky and sad I know, but does anyone else have any interest in these amazing items of history, we used ourselves not so long back to record our flying careers? A fellow pilot at work was about to throw out two musty old logbooks he'd had since a child, given to him by his dad, who was a fellow WW2 pilot and a colleague of one Fg Off RG Stringer DFC.
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