sidevalve (#11046),
There's no getting away from it: I am going ga-ga ! I must write out one hundred times:
"George Duffee is a Halifax pilot whose escape story is told by sidevalve".
"An unnamed reader of "Aviation Safety Digest" (1974) quoted by Fleigel and Centaurus was an operational Vultee Vengeance pilot in Australia".
"Warmtoast" is our manual D/F man, not Geriaviator".
Should keep me out of mischief for a while.
Reference nice pic on #11049: our younger readers may not know that the "Xs" on the cab windows are no part of an aerial array, but sticky tape stuck on the inside to limit injury from flying glass from a bomb blast. Householders were urged to do the same in 1939. Old uncle (ex-trenches WWI) caustically remarked: "It's not flying glass you need to worry about , but flying scrap iron !"
Danny.