Flt Sgt Young's crash, 13 November 1942. During low level flying practice in Hurricane BN702 he crashed badly. Despite his severe injuries he actually got out of the wreckage and managed to inject himself with morphine from the First Aid Kit, a task a doctor later said was impossible with his injuries! Taken to hospital in Calcutta, he unfortunately succumbed to the injuries two days later.

Our table on which we ate, wrote and played chess!

The table used to have to be repaired about once a week!

The table and room marked "X" was our whole home - there were no other buildings

Flt Lt Hogan doing a "beat up" of Chittagong aerodrome

L to R: Gatty May, Duffy, Mason, Jones (C.O), Sir Thomas Lamb, Hogan, Russ Bowes, Windy Meares, O.J. Hodgson.

Hogan's Cockpit

Our main task was to be used inland and we would fly quite some way behind the Jap lines as deep as we could, looking for transport etc. We were also the first to fly at night which was really quite terrifying. We were getting quite good results against Jap MT convoys in daylight but suddenly it all dried up just before the seige started. Obviously the Japs were moving stuff up at night so I suggested we should go out at night, in periods of moonlight. It was absolute murder - convoys with their headlights full on etc, and we had a killing - flames going up all over the place. One of the very first I went on was strafing what I thought were lorries and then I went through the top of a tree. Branches got into the airscoop and temperatures went up and I had an awful job to get back over the hills as it wouldn't climb. But she eventually did and I landed with half a tree in the air intake - which says quite a lot about how tough the Hurricane was. I used to have nightmares about that. I'd been shot down in 79 squadron, but this gave me the most nightmares.

5 Squadron

"I was 23 years old when I became Squadron Leader in India/Burma. Make no mistake the Mohawk was a good aircraft. Beautiful to fly, very manoeuvrable and very reliable. The Cyclone air-cooled engine of the Mohawk could take a lot of punishment and still put-put along. The weakness of the Mohawk were, ofcourse, poor height performance and lack of fire power - six machine guns was not very good. But she was a real nice aircraft and did us proud." - Hogan