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Sept 15th for the p107 entry Not clear which date for the p59, but just after Tuck was promoted squadron leader

No, he wasn’t!

I think term ‘split up’ might be misleading. The LW aircraft were apparently forced to fly evasive tactics, unlike the rigid formations of the USAAF later on. But the raids as a whole continued to their target, they didn’t scatter before doing so. That said, official reports record that on a...

Pages 59/60 and p107 for example. Clearly the author is using a lot of poetic licence, after all it was written in 1956. Official reports note damaged aircraft turning back but not undamaged ones.

can anyone answer this? Reading various accounts of the daytime BoB air battles, there seem to be many descriptions of German bomber formations turning tail and running for home at the first sign of RAF fighter attacks. I find this hard to believe. Any comments? ( Stanford Tuck biography 'Fly...

The Pilot must be having a nap

My grandparents thought this was part of a Zeppelin brought down over Essex in WW1. There’s nothing on the web about that , so does anyone know what this is?

There’s not much holding the engines on

Is that the standard mounting?

I keep seeing this stuff. Can it be switched off? This an aircraft website? Except it’s supposed to be about aircraft There it is again!

I think there might be something missing about China, Manchuria, and Korea in your comment.

I'd to find information about ground crew and dates on the RAF Eagle Squadrons in order to track my dad's service life. Where to start?

Amazing that they (all?) managed to hit a small target without all going over it single file

Given the huge numbers of B-17s attacking German targets, how did they all manage to get directly over target to drop their bombs? Archive film shows planes spaced widely apart even when bombing.