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Brewster Buffalo
There is a description of this event by the pilot - Fl Lt Hunter- on the International Bomber Command Centre Losses Database....link below. The Canberra was carrying an extra crewman whose task was to keep a look out for hostile aircraft using the sextant periscope!
Loss of Canberra
The sextant was used to make sure we were not trailing. You certainly wouldn't pick up an aircraft. When we were doing the milkrun over Yemen out of Khormaksar we would head south out to sea, find the trail level and then drop down a couple of thousand feet before heading north.The Orange Putter tail warning radar never worked.