Ken Holland was
in the bad books. He slept in until
8.25 a.m. on 21 September 1940, needing as much sleep as he could get after his late night/early
morning. Later on, he flew as Blue Two with Flight Lieutenant Thomas on a flap
that was of such little consequence it did not make it into 152 Squadron’s
Operations Record Book. Perhaps it was just as well, as our young Australian
had put up a number of blacks. First off, there was just sheer bad flying. Then
he carried out a blitz dive and lost UM-N’s knockout patch.
And
if all that wasn’t bad enough, without a hint of enemy
aircraft in the general area, he fired ten rounds from each gun.
Ken was well and truly ticked off when he
landed, and, sorry to say, he thoroughly deserved it. But it is hard to be
unforgiving of such boyish joie de vivre. After all, Ken was only 20.
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