Whilst flying Wellingtons from Tilstock, my dad, low on fuel and the navigator unsure of their position, descended to low level, (we all know what that meant in the RAF in WW2) but failed to advise his wireless operator, who had the trailing aerial extended, which decapitated a farmers cow. I don't know why he was not courts-martialed for this offence (I believe it was on the list), nor do I know why my farther in law was not charged for putting the lead weight of one through the side of a house with a Lancaster at low level. However, my father did subsequently received a medal for this occurrence, from his crew, (I have it in my collection of the family medals) and he was subsequently awarded a bar to this medal, for landing at a disused airfield, Sleap (there is a thread on this LOL).