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It seems that one of the hundred of RAF P-51 Mustangs wreaking havoc on the Nazis on 6 June 1944 ( D-Day for those of you so not so historically inclined. Shame on you. You watched Saving Private Ryan) , contained a Singaporean pilot. And from what I've found out, he might not have been the only one.
114 Singaporeans were sent over to Canada during the course of World War 2 to under the Commonwealth Training Scheme. So essentially, Lieutenant Winters and the men of Easy company could have been flying in, and jumping out of, a plane flown by a Singaporean. It could have been a Singaporean at the cockpit watching the lines of flak reaching out into the night like the fingers of Death himself, could have been a Singaporean flipping that switch for the jump light ot turn green, could have been a Singaporean breathing his last among the shattered remains of his plane on the fields of France.
It seems there was a point of time where Singaporean military pilots weren't the cowardly, overpaid, overrated and glorified taxi drivers they are today.

If anyone has any information at all about what happened to Wing Commander Tan Kay Hai or any of the other 113 Singaporean pilots after the war, I'd really love to know.

These are the men we ought to salute.