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25th June 2022, 20:25 | #1 |
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Just watched this, epic 👍 brought a tear to my eye. God bless the brave crews, and not forgetting the poor civilians at the wrong end. Watch it if you can 😎
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26th June 2022, 18:17 | #2 |
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To volunteer for a tour of 30 ops when the losses were around 5% (i.e. you would statistically last 20 flights) was incredible bravery (although I doubt the figures were widely known at the time).
My father was an engine fitter with Bomber Command (and later the Fleet Air Arm), I remember him saying that he soon stopped making friends with air crew as they came and went too quickly. As an aside, the ground crew also had a pretty poor time, much of the servicing was done out of doors, in all weathers and up a very long ladder (have you seen how high the engines are on a Stirling?) and more ground crew were lost to flu than fighter pilots were lost in the Battle of Britain (have to say I'd rather die of flu than being shot to pieces). There are many books & films on the subject but for me the stand-out hero has to be Leonard Cheshire VC
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My father was navigator, air crew on Wellingtons, during the second world war, And luckily for him, he got grounded after being wounded on a mission, and the following night, his entire crew copped it, he recovered , his squadron was re was transferred to Egypt, with replacement crews, served out there then in the med, on Mitchell's finished the war in Italy, he used to say, that afterwards, he never made friends with other air crew, because none of them, knew if they might be the next one to cop it.
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