Graham
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We're always being told they're deeper than you think.
Don't listen to public statements.
Okay, favourite Anzac story.
Keith Miller, the great all-rounder, debonair, heartthrob, bill cream man, was playing in his second test in Brisbane just after the war where he flew a Mosquito.
He was a Mosquito pilot of incredible bravery, courage and daring do, and he loved fellow pilots.
And it was a sticky wicket after Australia scored 600 at rain, England were being slaughtered, but he couldn't find it within him to bounce Bill Edrich.
He idolised Edrich because Edrich flew low-level bombers in the middle of the day over Cologne in Germany on a mission that no one thought would be successful, and it somehow was.
And Miller just said to, always said to Bill Edrich,
He got a DFC, a Distinguished Flying Award, and he idolized him.
So he couldn't, he just, he didn't have, so Don Bradman came up to Miller and said, Keith, Keith, Keith,
I don't care what happened in the war, bounce him.
And Miller said, hey, Don, it's all right for you.
You spent five minutes in the war, which Bradman, of course, was a physical instructor in the RAF.
He never had active engagement.
So he was harshly marked by guys who did.
They sort of said, oh, yeah, Don, how's your war?
So they had this big blue.
And I spoke once to Bill Brown, who was feeling a cover.
And I said, did you hear it?