vc10617 Sad news about Bill Lindsay AFM. A very brave man. Bill was on John Crampton's crew as Co-pilot/Flt engineer on the 1952 Ju Jitsu mission & would have received his AFM for that. Because of his B-29 Washington crash, his place was taken by Flt Lt McAlistar Furze on the 1954 mission. USAF B-29 Tankers were used to "top up" the B-45C aircraft before they entered Soviet airspace. The B-29 Tankers were so unreliable, that the American planners assigned TWO B-29's for every B-45C to be refuelled !! Because John Crampton's 1954 mission was supposed to go as far as Stalingrad, he had to also be refuelled on his return leg.