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Originally Posted by Kyt  As Ireland was neutral, any RAF (and Luftwaffe) members were suppossed to be interned for the duration of the war. In reality, a number of RAF crews who crashed in Ireland were quietly returned.
But Britain was very careful to instruct visiting airmen not to antagonise the Irish because (a)it was neutral and (b) there were just as many, if not more, anti-British Irish as there were pro.
Even when Irish airmen killed inaction, and whose bodies were returned to their families, were buried, and RAF representatives had to wear civilian clothes. |
Vince Reilly, who the Civillian Supervisor of the Edinburgh Rescue radio Room, came from Eire, he had been in the Irish Army and had guarded the Interned RAF men. At the end of the war, Vince came over to britian and joined the RAF, he served mainly in Sigs int. His claim to fame was that it was he who took Chf Tech Britton, the famous spay, through his Chf Techs, exam and was on watch when they arrest Britton. Before he went home too eire, he used to leave every indiction of his "employment" in the radio room, as he would be in trouble if someone found out that he was working for the British government.