231921 Ronald Ayliffe Schrapel Royal Australian Air Force 408 (Goose) Squadron from:Australia Ronald Schrapel did 40 bombing missions over Germany from Linton on Ouse when many comrades never returned. The crew became disorientated and this Australian Crew flew back with the Canadians. Dad vomited constantly in the air, remembered spiralling to escape enemy fire and never recovered mentally from accidentally bombing an orphanage.
I would love to hear from anyone who knew him and I still have and wear his war time blazer with the RCAF logo. He died in 1997 never having gotten over mum's death in 83. On the night he died the door bell rang and a whoosh came through through door enveloping myself and sister in mystical electricity. We know it was dad happy to be with mum again.
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