I am extremely grateful to the very talented aviation artist, Alex Hamilton who has most kindly given me permission to reproduce his wonderful paintings in Another Dawn Another Dusk.
Happily i own two fabulous prints of Alex's paintings, 'Foxtrot Landings' and 'Strike in the Aegean' which, along with his other paintings can be viewed at http://www.alexhamilton.net
The picture of 'Daily Inpections' is another of Alex's paintings, the original of which i believe is still for sale. It is a great acknowledgement to the wonderful job which the RAF ground crews did during the war to keep the aircraft flying.
Many heavy bombers in particular would struggle home with broken engines and holes in the fuselage and it was the ground crews who patched them up and got them flying once more.
Bomber Command aircraft actually belonged to the ground crews; the aircrew only 'borrowed' them for the operation and had to sign them out and back in again.