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Re: RAF (?) bomber crashed near Antwerp 1940
Robert, thanks for the extra detail
Larry: Yes, Lost Bombers follows the convention of naming Pilot 2nd pilot or later, a Flight Engineer Navigator Bomb aimer /gunner (front) Wireless/Radar Operator Air Gunner (mid upper) Air Gunner (rear) for a typical 7 man heavy bomber. For smaller crews, it just omits the positions missing so a Blenheim would have Pilot Navigator Gunner for example Some Lancasters carried an extra member of the crew for "special duties" usually a German speaker to broadcast false messages to nghtfighters to lure them away from the bomber stream. Now, who's going to identify the Germans, and why one wears different boots to the rest? They look to have retrieved quite a bit of kit, parachute(s) leather briefcase, sheepskin jacket and poignantly one boot. It looks as if the remnants of the rear turret are just visible. |
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