My uncle was a tail-end Charlie. His name was Charles, coincidentally

He made it through but every tour they served was a statistical certainty of death (your chance of surviving any one raid was 95%, which sounds great, but put differently it means you had a one in twenty chance of being killed, and a tour was twenty raids so....). He served several tours though was never precise about how many.

Posted By: Old Man, Jul 22, 18:43:55