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Old 1st Mar 2012, 04:48
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V2 my money's on Nanook.
pigboat, yeah, even money on that one.

Let's get back to something that really means a damn (or dam as in the Dam Busters) - those Lanc pilots like Clothier who were mere kids - most of them plucked right off the wheatfields.

The inside of a Lanc is not that big; you have to almost be a contortionist to go from the tail turret to flight deck. I once saw an ex RCAF (in his eighties) scoot from front to back in a matter of seconds. After all these years, he knew exactly where to duck, squeeze, and contort.

He was one of the lucky ones. Half of those in the Bomber Command never saw their 22nd birthday, never mind their 80th.
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