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From the anticipation of combat, to the sights and smells of a new world, Mr. Edwards describes what he truly feared and marvelled at.
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The war seemed to be, to us, something that was there. It was going to be there. It wasn’t something that was going to end. We somehow couldn’t...we didn’t know how we were going to get in to it, but we wanted to fly and get in to it. And I went to the Middle East, see, but I had no idea I was going to the Middle East, and I had no idea what it would be like to fly over Europe over the Channel. These are all unknowns, totally unknown and I think the only fears we really had is the fear of unknown; we don’t really know what’s going to happen. We stopped over in Freetown, on the west side of Africa, West Africa and I’ll never forget the ships pulled in there and they...we were anchored in the harbour and you could smell the limes. All over the whole area, the smell of limes that were grew near the village there. It was a native village. Everything we did from the time, you know, that we started to fly was a terrific experience. It just kept on growing and growing, see, and if you liked this kind of thing, it was all there. And here, now, we were out in Africa. And you know, things that we’d never seen before. Dark people with different habits and different vegetation. Smells and sights and things.