Interrogation

Interrogation

Multi-line poem about post operation debrief of aircrew. With considerable handwritten editing and notation.

One-page printed document with handwritten notes

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[inserted] [deleted] Young men with Ashen [deleted] white [/deleted] old Faces Bearing The Traces OF Dicing with Death [/deleted] [/inserted]

[inserted] Hope the Skipper’s [deleted] remembers [/deleted] with snake hips Shes Bad luck [/inserted]

[underlined] 13. Interrogation. [/underlined]

Remember waiting
Interrogating?
Tired red [inserted][deleted] young [/deleted][/inserted] eyes.
[deleted] Gray [sic] [/deleted] boyish faces
Bearing the [inserted] gray [sic][/inserted] traces
Of searching the skies.
[inserted] [deleted][undecipherable word] Killers young like Them [/deleted][/inserted]
Remember boys who came back
[inserted] [deleted] Young MEN BEARING THE TRACES [/deleted][/inserted]
Smoking
[inserted] [deleted] That [/deleted][/inserted]
Joking
[inserted] John Joe [/inserted]
[deleted] Taffy, [/deleted] Jock and Jack. [inserted] ? [/inserted]

[deleted] ‘Wakey, wakey, jJoe [sic] [/deleted]
‘Wakey, wakey come on Joe’
‘Have some more ‘B’ cocoe [sic]’
‘God, the flak was heavy
Over the coast’
‘Aye, I very nearly
Gave up the ghost’
‘Very nearly you said?’
‘Don’t kid yourself Fred
[deleted] Your past is so black
You’ll always get back’ [/deleted]
‘Admit it was a ‘Shaky do‘
‘And that [inserted] There [inserted] Met report was . . . FOO’
‘What a target’
‘What a prang’
[inserted] Took The Buscuit [sic] Rammy man [/inserted]

[inserted] [deleted] They Stepped of The pla [sic] [/deleted]
They were gong [sic] to
Interrogator
Old faces in
They were
waiting
For interrogation [sic]
With [indecipherable word] trained
Faces Dead
[deleted] Deadly white alabaster
White masks [deleted] ing [/deleted]
Marking The
The Maestrom [sic]
They had lived Through
Bearing the Traces
Young men with old
Young men looking for
[deleted] in old mens guise [/deleted]
Bearing The Traces
Of searching [deleted] the [/deleted] skies
Escape Through
Deadly enemy skies
Remember Boys who came back
After Flying through
A [deleted] Flying [/deleted] Hell
[deleted] Drained [/deleted]
Old Fly &
After surviving
Flying
Through ‘I’
Flying through
Hello
Back [/deleted]