Night bomber ops in 1940/41 record a number of occasions on which, at night and in or over weather, crews became very palpably lost. The tasks facing crew of that era, with the minimal kit they had, sometimes make me shudder. The most egregious example of which I'm aware has to be the Whitley crew from 10 Sqn that headed out for a target in the Ruhr in late May 1940, and who suffered a lightning strike outbound. They could not identify a legitimate target in the industrial haze and searchlight glare - remember, they were given point targets at that time, well before area bombing became the norm. They turned back west to head for the designated 'last resort' target, the airfield at Flushing. They finally got a glimpse of an airfield with a lit flare path, dropped bombs, and headed home to Yorkshire. Some later calculations suggested the airfield would have been Schipol. In fact, as became clear within a few hours, they had bombed RAF Bassingbourn, near Cambridge. The time and distance aspects of that night's work make one wonder where that aircraft really went after the lightning strike. (The Nav was exonerated in the subsequent Inquiry, the pilot was demoted to 2nd Pilot, and both were back on Ops in days. Very little damage was done, causing the Air Staff to wonder a little about the 250lb bombs then in use.)