‘Tuesday night? Yeah, went to the pictures at the Empire, didn’t I, second showing. The Dam Busters it was I went to see. It’s a fantastic film. Fantastic. Going to go and see it again tonight. If I can,’ Alan Peterson had said during the formal interview under caution for the charge of r**e. ‘I were in the RAF you know, during the war,’ he added as an afterthought.
The Dam Busters‘Really?’ Harding asked in some disbelief, unable to visual the diminutive Peterson as a pilot of a Lancaster bomber. Rear gunner maybe.
‘Yeah, my lungs were no good for flying, I had TB as a kid, nearly died I did and it really buggered my lungs. No, I was a photographic analyst, analysing photos of bomb damage, movement of Jerry armies and that. Good I was, got promoted to corporal and sent to the RAF School
