ABSTRACT
This passage describes a visit to a deserted aerodrome in Yorkshire by Leonard Cheshire who, as leader of 617 Squadron, had demonstrated the effectiveness of precision bombing in a celebrated series of raids. The opening scenes of Anthony Asquith’s film The Way to the Stars (1945) explored in similar fashion the thoughts of a veteran returning to another deserted airbase, as a ploughshare pulled by a horse team returned to agriculture land formerly used for waging aggressive war.
