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Originally Posted by Larry
Thanks.
Evidently AH781 was not written off as the Air Britain book suggests, on 19th Oct 1941.
After losing it wing tip to the 'bridge' it also lost the use of its air speed indicator, so landed too fast and turned over on 19th and perhaps the Engineering Officer reconsidered, as repairable that's why it carried on with 400 Sqn and lasted another 2 years with 1684 Bomber (Defence) Training Flight
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Larry
We are all aware that Jim Halley made mistakes in his excellent Air Britain RAF serials booklets.
However you can at least quote what he says correctly.
If you look at AH781 he says it was w/o 11.10.1943 while what you state for AH781 is what he lists for AH851!
Both dates confirmed by others on this topic as correct.
I never met Jim but we exchanged some e-mails until he was beyond that and he had a great integrity.
I and many others owe him a lot!
B Rgds
Stig