One of Our Aircraft Is Missing - Discussion on Changing Clothes in Crisis
Tom Earnshaw, Copilot in B for Bertie:
Now look here, what are we going to do about our clothes?
Frank Shelley - Observer:
Yes, we've got to get into civvies somehow.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Well, what's George doing?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie: [Taking off his clothes]
I'm swimming.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Where?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie:
In a canal.
John Glyn Haggard - Pilot in B for Bertie:
Well, how do you know there is one?
Sir George Corbett, Rear Gunner in B for Bertie:
There's always a canal in Holland. The next best thing to having civilian clothes is to have none. I'm going to be a swimming instructionist and spy off the land.
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