Fleet Air Arm allowance for pilots to grow beard

[yulzari]

Obviously you are someone who would know, but thanks for getting that correct.

Cheers

Steve

Ah Steve, The joys of getting the last batch of victims to vigorously pat the CS particles off their clothes upwind of your chosen prey.

 

[Elmas]

"A Gentleman must always shave carefully in the morning before leaving home. If today we have to go to sink a British battleship, as it is not excluded an encounter with some British Gentlemen, we must be sure to have the beard perfectly shaved. "

Tenente di vascello Gino Birindelli, Operatore Mezzi d'assalto S.L.C., asking Junio Valerio Borghese, Commander of the Sommergibile Sciré, permission to shave before Operation "BG 2", october 1940.