Memories of a Mossie pilot
Author: Gareth Owen
An oral history interview with Doug Gregory. Interview Date 23/04/13
Doug Gregory was in his mid-teens at the start of WW2. As soon as he was old enough, he joined the RAF and trained as a fighter pilot. He relates his training experiences on various aircraft and flying on bombing raids over Germany, flying a Mosquito in air support. After the war he was a test pilot until invalided out of the RAF, but continued flying even into his 90’s. Some of his experience is related as poetry.
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Interviewed by: Dave Larder
Transcription by: John Martin
Checked by: Sue Jackson
Audio Editor: Cosmic Carrot
Date: 1939