Yes Chug, I'm sure we all wondered about the engine loss too. I think it may have been that multi-engine bogey, feathering the wrong engine. If I remember from my boyhood lessons the Lancaster starter buttons and mag switches were in a row at the top right of the full-width panel, in front of the engineer who stood alongside the pilot, with a similar row of four big red feathering buttons below them and the Graviner extinguishers below that. In the chaos of those terrifying minutes it would have been easy to push the wrong one even for such a well-drilled crew.
As you say it's an amazing story which has had more than 37,000 views since starting on December 29, just like old times. I have also found more info about Ron Homes, not least the well-earned DFC which he said nothing about, and will post this material after the last post of his story which will appear tomorrow. Regards to everyone.