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Authors: Martin Bowman
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While this was going on coffee and rum was brought in and the second cigarette lit. Boy, did the first one taste good! Following this the navigators had to hand in their maps, charts and logs and pass on details of radar coverage, Gee jamming, hand over signals flimsies and camera magazine, while the pilots signed the Form 700 and told the engineers about any snags. At last all was done and it was away to the Mess for bacon and eggs and the New Year’s Eve party. 156
Flying Officer Bill Clayton-Graham DFC. ( via Andy Bird )
Group Captain Max Aitken DSO DFC, CO Banff Wing. ( G.A.B. Lord )
FB.XVIII HJ732/G armed with four .303 inch machine guns and the 57mm Molins gun in the nose.
PZ405 NE-A of 143 Squadron with 250lb RPs on rocket rails flown by Squadron Leader Pritchard DFC. ( via Andy Bird )
143 Squadron FB.VIs led by Wing Commander C.N. Foxley-Norris DSO pulls up over the Lysaker at Tetgenaes on 23 March 1945. Two Mosquitoes were shot down. ( via GMS )
At first RPs with 60lb semi-armour piercing heads of the type used in the Western Desert for tank busting were used on anti-shipping strikes. These did not penetrate shipping and caused little structural damage so they were soon replaced with the solid armour rockets. ( via Andy Bird )
An armourer holds a 57mm armour-piercing HE shell in front of the Molins gun in the nose of a Banff Mosquito. The four .303 inch machine gun armament was later reduced to two guns to save weight and allow more fuel to be carried on anti-shipping strikes. ( via GMS )
PR.XVI NS590/B with D-Day invasion stripes. ( Ken Godfrey via George Sesler )
Lieutenant Walter D. Gernand (right), 654th Bomb Squadron, and his cameraman, Sergeant Ebbet C. Lynch, 8th CCU. ( via George Sesler )
1st Lieutenant Claude C. Moore, a navigator in the 654th Bomb Squadron. On 9 April 1945 1st Lieutenant John A. Pruis and Claude Moore flew a Gray-Pe a mission with three other Mosquitoes on an escort for a long, maximum-effort mission by B-17s of the 1st Air Division to Oberpfaffenhofen in southeastern Germany. Their Mosquito was shot down by P-51s and Pruis was killed. Moore, who was very badly wounded, survived and spent the better part of two years in hospitals. Doctors concentrated on his broken back, a ruptured cartilage in his knee, an injured ankle and the shrapnel wounds in his arm. He was then transferred to two burn centers in England where his hand, face and scalp received skin grafts and other attention. Later, he was transferred to the States where he received attention at two more hospitals. When married years after the mission he was still wearing a body cast. Pruis is buried in Lorraine American Cemetery, France. (via George Sesler)
PR.XVI NS591/S of the 25th Bomb Group landing at Watton on 22 February 1945. ( via Philip Birtles )
PR.XVI NS748 lost its tail and rear fuselage in this crash at Watton in April 1945. ( via Ken Godfrey )
Lieutenant Raymond G. Spoerl (right) with a UK airman at Watton.
Lieutenant Dean Sanner at Watton on 8 April 1944.
On 18 September 1944 1st Lieutenant Robert A. Tunnel (pictured) in the 654th Bomb Squadron, with 19-year-old Staff Sergeant John ‘Buddie’ G. Cunney, 8th CCU cameraman failed to return from a PR mission to the Nijmegen-Eindhoven area where a supply drop was to be made by Liberators to the US Airborne. Tunnel was blinded by a searchlight, lost control and crashed on Plantlunne airfield. Both he and Cunney were killed and they are interred in the American war cemetery at Neuville en Condroz, Belgium. (via George Sesler)
PR.XVI NS553, still in its RAF PR blue scheme, suffered a starboard undercarriage failure after putting down in emergency at the 96th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress base at Snetterton Heath in Norfolk. ( via Dick Jeeves )
Len A. Erickson, a navigator in the 654th Bomb Squadron and Albert D. Rasmussen and two other officers playing cards at Watton. ( Erickson )
H2X PR.XVI NS538/F with Photo Lab personnel, Carl J. Wanka and John W.
Flying Officer Bill Clayton-Graham DFC. ( via Andy Bird )
Group Captain Max Aitken DSO DFC, CO Banff Wing. ( G.A.B. Lord )
FB.XVIII HJ732/G armed with four .303 inch machine guns and the 57mm Molins gun in the nose.
PZ405 NE-A of 143 Squadron with 250lb RPs on rocket rails flown by Squadron Leader Pritchard DFC. ( via Andy Bird )
143 Squadron FB.VIs led by Wing Commander C.N. Foxley-Norris DSO pulls up over the Lysaker at Tetgenaes on 23 March 1945. Two Mosquitoes were shot down. ( via GMS )
At first RPs with 60lb semi-armour piercing heads of the type used in the Western Desert for tank busting were used on anti-shipping strikes. These did not penetrate shipping and caused little structural damage so they were soon replaced with the solid armour rockets. ( via Andy Bird )
An armourer holds a 57mm armour-piercing HE shell in front of the Molins gun in the nose of a Banff Mosquito. The four .303 inch machine gun armament was later reduced to two guns to save weight and allow more fuel to be carried on anti-shipping strikes. ( via GMS )
PR.XVI NS590/B with D-Day invasion stripes. ( Ken Godfrey via George Sesler )
Lieutenant Walter D. Gernand (right), 654th Bomb Squadron, and his cameraman, Sergeant Ebbet C. Lynch, 8th CCU. ( via George Sesler )
1st Lieutenant Claude C. Moore, a navigator in the 654th Bomb Squadron. On 9 April 1945 1st Lieutenant John A. Pruis and Claude Moore flew a Gray-Pe a mission with three other Mosquitoes on an escort for a long, maximum-effort mission by B-17s of the 1st Air Division to Oberpfaffenhofen in southeastern Germany. Their Mosquito was shot down by P-51s and Pruis was killed. Moore, who was very badly wounded, survived and spent the better part of two years in hospitals. Doctors concentrated on his broken back, a ruptured cartilage in his knee, an injured ankle and the shrapnel wounds in his arm. He was then transferred to two burn centers in England where his hand, face and scalp received skin grafts and other attention. Later, he was transferred to the States where he received attention at two more hospitals. When married years after the mission he was still wearing a body cast. Pruis is buried in Lorraine American Cemetery, France. (via George Sesler)
PR.XVI NS591/S of the 25th Bomb Group landing at Watton on 22 February 1945. ( via Philip Birtles )
PR.XVI NS748 lost its tail and rear fuselage in this crash at Watton in April 1945. ( via Ken Godfrey )
Lieutenant Raymond G. Spoerl (right) with a UK airman at Watton.
Lieutenant Dean Sanner at Watton on 8 April 1944.
On 18 September 1944 1st Lieutenant Robert A. Tunnel (pictured) in the 654th Bomb Squadron, with 19-year-old Staff Sergeant John ‘Buddie’ G. Cunney, 8th CCU cameraman failed to return from a PR mission to the Nijmegen-Eindhoven area where a supply drop was to be made by Liberators to the US Airborne. Tunnel was blinded by a searchlight, lost control and crashed on Plantlunne airfield. Both he and Cunney were killed and they are interred in the American war cemetery at Neuville en Condroz, Belgium. (via George Sesler)
PR.XVI NS553, still in its RAF PR blue scheme, suffered a starboard undercarriage failure after putting down in emergency at the 96th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress base at Snetterton Heath in Norfolk. ( via Dick Jeeves )
Len A. Erickson, a navigator in the 654th Bomb Squadron and Albert D. Rasmussen and two other officers playing cards at Watton. ( Erickson )
H2X PR.XVI NS538/F with Photo Lab personnel, Carl J. Wanka and John W.
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