The final trial, holding the bombing-run track for a further 2 minutes after bomb release for the all important photoflash record of your bombing accuracy, only then can the bomb doors be closed and the speed increased! The enemy know your height and can fuse their antiaircraft shells accordingly. Is abandoning this vulnerable procedure justified if you are caught and coned by the searchlights? No doubt we will learn more in upcoming Geriaviator posts. The writing is superb, right up there with the likes of Ernest K Gann, in painting this verbal Son et Lumiere scene of a Night to Remember in the wartime skies of the Third Reich.