As it is ANZAC Day, I will relate a story about flying Canberras over 40 years ago in the Vietnam War. I thought I may have told this story before on this forum, but maybe not.
I will quote this from an interview I did in "Vietnam" magazine, December 1994. It was a bombing mission under FAC control in the south delta part of Vietnam, an area known as IV Corps:
I had a funny experience one day [probably early 1970] with a bombsight. The gyro that stabilised the collimator glass had gone pear-shaped. I had to manually force the glass to the horizontal, eyeballing the horizon. I told the USAF FAC, "We've got a U/S bombsight, but we should be OK." (U/S of course being our abbreviation for unserviceable.) The FAC acknowledged with a query in his voice. On the attack, my first bomb of the stick was right on his smoke. Pure arse! The FAC came back, "Hey, those American bombsights are real good!"
Talk about laugh!! It is good to remember funny times from operational experiences.