Chapter 23
Chapter 23 Hitler had surrendered and Britain was celebrating. The people had endured years of privation. Years of five inches of water in the bath, no bananas and the motto make do and mend. Half a million homes destroyed, hundreds of thousands dead, millions of lives disrupted – and now the horror was finally over. When Tom and the rest of his squadron arrived from Biggin Hill for the victory party at London’s fashionable Cable Club, they were greeted like rock stars – played in by the band and escorted to the exclusive VIP area beyond the red velvet cord. Nobody had forgotten Prime Minister Churchill’s stirring speech after the crucial air war during the Battle of Britain. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Everybody knew the D-Day invasion of
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