Just for the last two posts, I was not at all questioning the merits of limited panel flying in a bygone era nor even now. There's just no connection to modern airline flying and the swipe was irrelevant if deeply discussed.
Over the target area Middleton had to make three low-level passes in order to positively identify the target;
I find this interesting considering a murderous bombing campaign deliberately targeting Italian civilians whom were disproportionately female too. In the hope it would accelerate the rise of public dispirit against Mussolini's fascism. Three low level passes over the target is tactically inept? If it wasn't the Fiat factory that seems a lot of target fixation when the policy was to bomb civilians.