RAAF Flying Officer Allen Cover

Flying Officer Allen Cover was one of the 600 Australians who trained with the Empire Air Training Scheme in Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe). After his training in Africa he was posted to Coastal Command at Inverness in Scotland to train on Catalina flying boats. In September 1942, 262 Squadron RAF was formed and Cover returned to South Africa with the squadron to patrol the Indian Ocean in Catalinas.

Not only enemy aircraft, but the weather was another enemy for aircrews, and according to Allen Cover, 262 Squadron RAF, [was] perhaps the biggest hazard that you had to contend with.