The power of Sideswipe (and the inaccuracy!)

[Barnsey]

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10797688

"Thank you Sideswipe!" writes a reader. "A year ago I cut out a story from your column. The writer mentioned being stationed in Japan with Squadron 14 of the RNZAF Peace Corps. My father was also in that same squadron. With a very unusual surname, I tracked the writer down. The two 88-year-old men have since met, compared photo albums, found each other in a 1946 newspaper photo of marching servicemen (five rows apart) and now correspond regularly. A six-month friendship has been forged but sadly my father has since learnt he has not got long to live, but they have shared priceless stories, fond memories and brought two families together."

Must've been one of those secret RNZAF postwar units!

[kb]

While it is inacurate I can see why the term has been used. The squadron was there essentially to keep the peace and whats more its a great story.

[ErrolC]

Hard to blame Sideswipe for this one, it's a direct quote (from a second-hand source). Fact checking and correction is a bit much to ask for in these circumstances!

[Tony]

Not really - the reader was qoting the RNZAF of the Helengrad era......