Battle of Britain History - but not as we know it.....
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Barbara,
I have just read your story, quite fascinating and thank you for letting us see 'what it was like' from a different perspective.
For info', you mention ships with Hurricanes on catapults; these did indeed exist, they were known as 'CAM Ships'.
They were usually merchant ships, and the pilots were supposedly 'on rest' from normal operations ( some rest ! ).
I believe pilots from the RAF and Fleet Air Arm took part, this was chiefly a stop-gap to keep away the menace of the long range Focke-Wolf Condor bomber / reconaissance aircraft, until the small Escort Carriers were available.
Andy
I have just read your story, quite fascinating and thank you for letting us see 'what it was like' from a different perspective.
For info', you mention ships with Hurricanes on catapults; these did indeed exist, they were known as 'CAM Ships'.
They were usually merchant ships, and the pilots were supposedly 'on rest' from normal operations ( some rest ! ).
I believe pilots from the RAF and Fleet Air Arm took part, this was chiefly a stop-gap to keep away the menace of the long range Focke-Wolf Condor bomber / reconaissance aircraft, until the small Escort Carriers were available.
Andy
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Hampdens - Slight Thread Drift
OK, not Battle of Britain, I know, and a diversion from Barbara's wonderful reminiscences of life just up the road from me but could we return briefly to the case of inaccuracies on the RAF History part of the Service's website?
I was idly trawling through said site in the pursuit of information about the Stirling when I happened upon this: RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary .
It would appear the that one of the major drawbacks of the Hampden's design was that ..."it was not fitted with powered fun turrets".
Does nobody at the MOD proof-read copy before publishing it or was the fun turret, like the Enigma machine, yet another great British invention that for decades remained shrouded in secrecy ? Surely Duncan Campbell should have told us by now...
I was idly trawling through said site in the pursuit of information about the Stirling when I happened upon this: RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary .
It would appear the that one of the major drawbacks of the Hampden's design was that ..."it was not fitted with powered fun turrets".
Does nobody at the MOD proof-read copy before publishing it or was the fun turret, like the Enigma machine, yet another great British invention that for decades remained shrouded in secrecy ? Surely Duncan Campbell should have told us by now...
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Slight thread drift
Does nobody at the MOD proof-read copy before publishing it
