way back when
I was in the bar of the Auldgarth Inn after a days fishing and I got talking to a lad who was once a shepard up in the Cheviots. He said theres a Lanc and a B17 up there, crashed like. In the summer the peat dries out and the planes rise. In the wet they sink back.
I've heard the Lanc had bullet holes in it later identified as that of the .303 type. Was coming back on a raid from Norway but spanked into the big hill between there and its base.
Explain.
Gunners opened up on themselves? Mis-identified by RAF NF and shot down, or damaged and then in-directly shot down? Cook off from rounds? Just an average young tired wartime aircrew, who screwed up and who flew in?
All true? RIP.
Bomber Harris, rot in hell.