Recent content by Ed Williamson

That sound about right - I am assuming that your articles have come from a crash site, and are the remains after - perhaps - fire and decades of buried corrosion ?

Roger Freeman “The Mighty Eighth” has colour schemes of the Heavies, Mediums and Fighters

Stinger tail gunsight ?

I was most upset by the totally spurious insertion of the John Egan character into the otherwise reasonably accurate portrayal of the Russelsheim incident.

I suspect that the name of the hospital has been misread, and should be "Savernake." It's still there, only a mile or so from st Katharine's church.

There is a bit of information in a recent thread on the Arrse website @PAT303 https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/the-effectiveness-of-bomber-command-in-the-second-world-war-was-the-price-worth-the-results.315446/page-45#post-12418016

That was presumably 42-29986, Petrich crew ? Bremen was the target but aircraft attacked targets of opportunity. As the other two 100 BG aircraft were lost whilst trying to bomb a convoy, it's probable that Bluebird was lost in the same way. The two aircraft observed going down were spotted...

Flight deck crew entered via a door low down on port side directly below flight deck - only a short ladder needed to get in, but they then had to climb more internal fixed ladders to get into the office. There were two passenger size doors, set into the main cargo doors, short ladders only...

Steamgeezer did this on a 1/72 C-47 Skytrain. From about 40 minutes in . . . . .

8/6 (eight shillings and sixpence) was 42 pence in the new decimal currency. 42 and a half pence, to be precise.

I know that this is a 12 year old thread, but who knows, it may interest somebody. The Lanc rear gunner's parachute pack was stored on the starboard side of the rear fuselage. To get at it the RG had to fore-and-aft his turret, open the turret doors, open the turret access doors in the...