[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

Squatter wanders blithely off-topic because now aeroplanes have been mentioned. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

Diamond, in a happier and more civilised age before television, men as young as eighteen were copying poems into notebooks and diaries for future reference. I read that scene as being the young aircrewman finding solace in the fellow-feeling of a poet from an earlier and infinitely more tragic conflict.

Of course I may be wrong. The film was made in Hollywood after all, but I seem to remember that it was fairly accurate. Mainly I watched it for those beautiful B-17Gs: they had to fly them in from all over the world to get enough for a squadron.