Most Secret War

by R.V. Jones

For some reason or other he stubbornly refused to allow the modification to be made; but flying in Mosquitoes convinced me even further that with these aircraft wing-tip cameras would be a great advantage, and by this time I was beginning to get on personal terms with ‘Daddy ’Laws. Finally, I found his weak point: of all the improbable hobbies for a Group Captain, his was the making of jam. If only I could convince him that I, too, was interested in jam-making, he might be more sympathetic to my ideas about cameras. My moment came when I asked him one day whether he had ever made quince jam. ‘No!’ he exclaimed—and then with a wistful look in his eye, ‘But by God, I’d like to!’ I offered to get him some quinces, and henceforward photographic Mosquitoes for low-level work were fitted with forward-facing wing-tip cameras, with the much improved result we had expected.