P51, 617 Squadron

[Uncle Pete]

Can anybody shed light on what weaponry Leonard Cheshire would have carried when he used a P51 for pathfinder missions? I'm assuming he'd have had incendiaries of some sort under the wings.

 

[wuzak]

250lb Target Indicators (TI) probably.

 

[Uncle Pete]

250lb Target Indicators (TI) probably.

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Thanks, mate, you're a star! That lot is going straight to PDF. I wish I could email you a pint.

 

[wuzak]

They are exerts from a pdf about British explosive ordnance, which is somewhere on this site.

 

[wuzak]

It can be found here

British bomb manual

I also found his one

The Legendary Avro 6 Bomb Carrier for the Mosquito