H.E. Bates Companion

Asking "by what...is the R.A.F. kept in the air?" Bates puts aside pilots, navigators, radio operators, engineers, electricians, commanders, and intelligence and says that "all these departments would fail, or fail to function, if it were not for a department with the most humdrum name of all...Its official name is Equipment; its everyday name is Stores. Bates pays tribute to the work of the department in supplying parts, food, petrol, and clothes, as well as in providing heat, light, furnishings, and housing for the entire air force. Of additional interest is that this is the only known non-fiction item with the byline "Flying Officer X." In the Royal Air Force Journal (May 30, 1942)/