RICE DROP
Most of the stories written about the RAFs part in the war are about bombing raids -
ourcrew's story is more humane.
As our plane turned on to the final approach, we could see that what had appeared from the air to be a wall running the full length of the runway was actually thousands of burlap sacks stacked about six feet high. Their contents, we found out later, was rice - about a thousand tons of it!
