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‘When This Ruddy War Is Over’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 10: When this ruddy war is over [...] Then we’ll catch the train for Blighty.at Blighty, n.
‘When This Ruddy War Is Over’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 10: When this ruddy war is over [...] Then we’ll catch the train for Blighty. ‘The Bold Aviator’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 3: Shake the lead from your feet and get busy.at shake the lead out (v.) under lead, n.
‘The Only Way’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 3: Oh, poor old bean, Archie got him clean.at old bean (n.) under bean, n.2
‘Looping the Loop’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 21: Whirling and twirling the whole day long, / In a bus that’s built for two.at bus, n.2
‘I Want a G-Nôme’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 26: Give me the spluttering, conking G-nôme.at conked (out), adj.
‘Recruiting Song’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 9: The fellows they were ‘risky,’ they smoked but De Reszke.at risky, adj.
‘Bless ’Em All’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 3: There’s many an airman finished his time / And many a twerp signing on.at twerp, n.
‘Omer Drome’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 45: So won’t you split-arse back / Along the track / To my dear old Omer Town?at split-arse, v.
‘My Old Yellow Jacket’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 47: He’s returning our fire, / I must split-arse and stunt round him.at split-arse, v.
‘The Last Lay of the Sopwith Camel Pilot’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 35: I’m going to a better land, They binge there ev’ry night, The cocktails grow on bushes, So ev’ry one stays tight.at binge, v.1
‘Every Little While’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 55: Every little while my engine’s conking, / Every little while I catch on fire.at conk (out), v.
‘Excelsior Up To Date’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 27: There, in the tree-top, that young coon / Perched like a punctured kite balloon.at coon, n.
‘I Want to Go to Essen’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 60: I want to go to Essen to lay my little egg [...] So to Essen we’ll go with a hell of a bombing formation.at egg, n.1
‘You’re Only a P.B.O.’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 38: When you get in the old machine to start on a damned O.P. / You cover yourself with tons of clothes and they’re all of them N.B.G.at n.b.g., phr.
‘We Haven’t Got a Hope’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 59: I’d had a thick night and a very sore head.at thick, adj.
‘The 100 Squadron Lament’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 61: We wrote off his best drome.at write off, v.
‘The 100 Squadron Lament’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 62: That brought the squadron their first fright. For he tried to wipe out Ochey.at wipe out, v.
‘Officers of ‘A’ Flight’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 81: Watching the Flight Commander / Doing sweet damn-all.at sweet damn-all (n.) under sweet, adj.1
‘The Song of the Cadet’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 83: A bowler hat young man, / A crammer’s pup young man.at crammer, n.
‘The Riggers’ Song’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 99: Jigs, Jigs, syrup of figs.at jigs!, excl.
‘A Hudson Song’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 121: Instead of bombing the binder he went out on the spree.at binder, n.2
‘The Firth of Flaming Forth’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 117: We made a flaming landfall / In the Firth of Flaming Forth, / Ain’t the Air Force flaming awful?at flaming, adj.2
‘A Hudson Song’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 121: When we go out to Norway / We bring ’em back the gen [....] They know they’re lost but, dammit chaps, they also know their gen.at gen, n.2
‘Ops in a Wimpey’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 118: I’ve got a date with my popsee.at popsie, n.1
‘The Heavy Bombers’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 143: The navigator’s balled up, the wireless balled as well.at ball up, v.
‘A Malta Song’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 146: Ain’t they binding lovely aircraft?at blinding, adj.1
‘A Malta Song’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 145: We’re flying binding Hurricanes with binding long range tanks, / We do some aerobatics but we get no binding thanks.at blinding, adj.2
‘The Fortress Song’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 137: A little rubber hose-pipe / To bung the gravy through.at bung, v.1
‘Rows and Rows and Rows’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 140: With little chitties that we forged we took them by surprise.at chitty, n.
‘The Benghazi Mail Run’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 153: He [...] Suggests we bombed a dummy target, / Never heard such utter clot!at clot, n.1
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