Mahatma Gandhi was becoming very popular
and his people were called the Congress Party.
They didn't like Brits very much and we were
Brits as far as anybody was concerned,
we were British. And so when they refueled us,
fueled us up what we were going to do was a
raid over Naninyang or somewhere like that
and we put too much water with the gas and we
got to eight hundred feet and it got very quiet.
So we came down in a paddy field.
You know the nose you saw out there,
it went under like that, there's a navigation
table right there and there's an ax down there.
So the navigation table, everything is
flying around, so the navigation table
hit me right across there and the axe hit me
right here so I don't remember getting out
of the aircraft at all.
We had decided that if the natives were
not friendly, we'd get a few of them and
then save one for ourselves.
Wasn't necessary... the head man was a
nice little guy, couldn't do enough for ya.