When Dad,s Skipper did his second dickie flight on Dec 29 43 to Berlin, the ac he was in was struck by bombs from above. The squadron log show:
Bombed at 20.15hrs from 20,000ft on center of Red-Green T-I,s. Immediately after bombing rear turret and two upper rear turret guns damaged by bombs from above, and incendiaries dropped into fuselage between rest bed bulkhead. Navigator managed to put out fire with two fire extinguishers.
Interestingly enough, this crew was short a wireless Op; it was filled in by the WOP from Dad,s crew; both pilot and WOP made their first trip together. About this time Dad was also assigned to fill in for a crew short a bomb aimer.