[danmac]

Hi Robert

I don't have a list of my uncle's ops but I never remember him talking about a crash. On one raid a piece of shrapnel passed through the bottom of his turrent and passed right between his legs, just missing him. "I nearly got my backside shot off, or worse," he said.
I went over his log with him many years ago, writing down all the ops and then checking with the Bomber Command War Diaries. It turned out more than 500 bombers were lost during raids in which he participated. He was on a number of very nasty ones, including the infamous Nurnberg op and several to Berlin. I hope to borrow his log book from a cousin, if it still survives, so I can copy out the ops again.