SFFP
My first choice was nav! So there!
As I once explained to PN, having seen 'Dr Strangelove', where it was obvious the nav was the cool dude in the B52 and the captain was a raving idiot - remember him waving his hat,sat astride the nuke leaving the bomb bay?
TTN
With you on 2 counts - even with a periscopic sextant my astro could be crap! Did find Gan on a few occasions though; 700 mile range NDB helped.
Some of the posts on this thread make me want to slash my wrists. Having in my short flying career flown with lots of guys who had fought in WW2 ,I will never criticise what they did,not only for our country, but to save western Europe too.We could have just pulled down the shutters and sat there after the BofB. If Hitler hadn't been so stupid as to declare on the USA it's debatable whether they would have ever entered the European War.