Rejected by the RCAF because of a limp from a birth defect and graduating first in his class at Toronto Radio College Paul was snapped up by the Merchant Navy where he served as wireless operator on SS Canadian Cruiser sailing the world. While ashore in Durban, South Africa he was luckily recruited by the RAF, being appointed L.A.C retroactive to the day he should have entered the RCAF.. On its next cruise his former ship was sunk by the German surface raider Admiral Scheer, the wireless operator trained by Paul managing to get off a signal that brought the Royal Navy, which drove the Scheer into hiding where it stayed for the duration of the war and never sank another ship. Posted to Radar Station Bawdsey near Felixstowe in Eastern England during his leisure time Paul wrote poetry, one piece, An Air Man's Vision, being published six months after he bled to death after being stuck by bomb fragments during a German attack on Bawdsey.
The following poem was written by Leading Aircraftsman Douglas E. Paul just days before his death[...]
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