DCs
Crew - Pilot. Target Sighted! Pilot Attack 6 DCs! Bomb Doors Open 100ft 160kts. Standby! Weapons Loose!!
Pilot - Tail. Attack Report 50/50 Zero Line.
Ah those were the days!!
Shackman's recollections are correct or does he still have a copy of the Shack weapons handbook?
As I recall, DCs were reserved for visual drops only, when part of the sub or the wake were still visual at the release point. The ideal drop was a 100yd stick 50/50 down the subs track.
I dropped a stick or 2 as a "highlight" of the MOTU course in 1967. Impressive ammounts of spray. I too remember the armourers being glad to see the back of some fairly ancient and rusty "tin cans" and seeing us off with instructions "not to bring them back"!