John was not quite three then and to keep him quiet and satisfied we did and got quite a few looks with him hugging that monkey all through that fligh....Once we arrived at RAF Mildenhall and were processed in, we were divided up and bused to our new bases, and we were taken to the NCO club and once more processed in and then taken to a motel outside the gate. Housing wasn't available to many of us of lower ranks, and so we lived in the motel and rode to work with someone who had a car. From the. For one perfect night she was mine and mine alone, but I knew it wouldn't last. She would start to get twitchy and she would want to have some extra fun. After all our years together I could read the signs, so by Thursday night I got our contact book out looking for some likely names."What do you want to do this weekend?" I asked."Could we go up to London for a change," she said, "what his name, you know, lives in Ealing." Ron," I said and quickly looked him up. Ron is well built guy, now. “A lot better off than I thought at first, I deliberately overestimated all the costs.”“Clever,” she smiled. “Hey, know what we forgot?”“No, what?”“The mail, there’s bound to be tons of it.”There was too, but most of it went straight in the bin.“There’s one for me!” she yelled excitedly. “I’ve got a letter.”It was her sheer excitement at such a mundane thing that made me realise she’d probably never even had a letter before.“Look, Michael, it’s got my name on it.”“Why don’t you open it,. “The launch will leave at 4:30 and meet the merchant ship three and a-half miles or so off the coast, Joe,” the first man who was named George told the second man.“What time is the meeting scheduled for?” a third man asked.“It’s scheduled for 5:10 and the delivery should be completed by 5:30 or so, Nate,” George told the third man, meaning the fourth man was Ben, the original questioner.“That’s good. That will be after sunset, but it will still be light enough to see without the use of.