When the war was over, we did all these victory flypasts in formation, and all that. And then the Command, or whatever it was then, decided that I should be placed in charge of about 10,000 ex-German Luftwaffe prisoners who were... supposed to... build bigger runways where we were stationed at Wunstorf, and I was in charge of that whole operation. So I got a sort of temporary commission another... for another year in Germany, near Hanover, and in charge of these Luftwaffe personnel. And the one thing that I do remember... because when we heard about what happened in Belsen, I brought the whole officers' staff – because they were still in their uniforms – to Belsen. I hadn't been there myself, and... looked at that concentration camp.

Now, all the inmates by this time were billeted in the SS barracks, but some of them came around with us because they were almost proud to show the horror of this place, and... I must say these German officers which were with me were absolutely speechless. They knew that concentration camps existed, and they knew that some not very nice things happened there, but they'd never thought to come face-to-face with what they found there, you know. So that was quite an experience.

[Q] And you were how old now – 22, or something, I suppose? 21, 22?

Yes, something like that, yes.

[Q] It was quite young, isn't it, to be dealing with that sort of thing?

Yes... yes.