Stewart Stevenson, my father-in-law, was a good man, modest, calm and undemonstrative.
One afternoon in 2008, the year before he died, I sat down with him with his pilot's log books and recorded some of his recollections, just as a family record.
This is the sixth in a series of small videos based on that recording and the many papers and documents, including all his flight logs, that he had saved and stored in a suitcase he had brought back from India in 1947.
Stewart joined the RAF in 1938 as an apprentice fitter and converted to aircrew in 1942, learning to fly in America (taught by a German). After converting to bombers on his return to England he flew a Wellington to India and joined a brand new B-24 Liberator squadron, 356 Squadron, based in Salbani, Bengal.
He completed a tour of 30 operational flights over Burma and Thailand before joining a repair and salvage unit, flying a converted Dakota around India. He returned to England in 1947 and took part in the Berlin Airlift in 1948, before retiring from the RAF in 1950.
With apologies for the crude editing and my terrible interviewing technique!