Cold War reconnaissance mission
I was listening to Radio Wales this afternoon when a lady came on saying that her father had been a Navigator on a secret mission over the Soviet Union. He had been given a medal but he had always refused to tell anyone what the medal was for. The lady has been in touch with MOD, to ask what the citation to his medal said, but she said no-one seems to know anything about the incident. She believes that MOD have lost the file.
I remember reading about the mission led by Sqn Ldr Crampton, which appeared on pprune some months ago and phoned BBC Wales to tell them that I would seek out the information for them, which they could then pass on to this lady.
This lady mentioned b-29s, but I suspect that they were a smokescreen for the real thing.
Would someone mind pointing me to the posting in pprune which detailed the exploits of John Crampton and his crews.
John Crampton died on June 12th of this year