Letter from Terry Ford to his family

Letter from Terry Ford to his family

Letter from Terry Ford to his parents letting them know that he has been classified as a u/t pilot, and the new intake has arrived.

1942-08-25

Two handwritten sheets

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

EFordTAFordAG-[Mrs]-M420825-0001,
EFordTAFordAG-[Mrs]-M420825-0002

RAF Crest
1585520 L A C Ford T A
Hut 21 “A” Flight
2 Squadron RAF
Heaton Park
Manchester
Tuesday 25-8-42.
Dear Mum, Dad & Moira
Classified at last & continuing training as PILOT. Whoopee !!!. I could hardly believe my ears. They read out all air-bombers navigators & Navigator bombers first & then Pilots. Every name I thought would be mine under Air bomber, but it wasn’t. About 50% of the chaps are u/t Pilots.
The C.O. gave us a few stirring words(?) & then we were dismissed.
The new intake has arrived to-day & Matt Wilkinson
[page break]
& Pete De Guecen etc, are with them. All of the old “B” Flight at Stratford are here & most of them have passed as pilots. Good show!
There is a definately [sic] good chance that I shall get home this weekend, but dont [sic] bank on it. If I get it I shall just arrive on Friday evening as we shan’t know until dinner time.
I shall now be able to increase your allowance now Mum as I shall continue to get flying pay now.
Cheerioh [sic]
Love
Terry