Some of the stories he tells are superb!!
For example -
he was doing air gunnery training in a wellington bomber, when he heard a mayday call over the intercom about a plane that had lost its engines and was going down.......
he reported it to the skipper (pilot) and said that another poor bugger has put out a distress call, to which the skipper replied -
Yes i know!!! ITS US!!!!
the wellington ended up ploughing through a field into a woods, nobody was hurt.
It made me laugh when he told me.
He goes on to mention the most scared he ever was while doing ops to - and not once was it in the face of enemy planes or flak!! It was on the way back to base from a mission in southern france, they got caught in an electrical storm. He said he had never been so scared, the fate of the crew wasnt in their own hands, it wasnt something they could defend themsleves from. They were at gods mercy in that storm.
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