P51, 617 Squadron

• Oct 27, 2017

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Uncle Pete

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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.

 

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250lb Target Indicators (TI) probably.

 

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Uncle Pete

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wuzak said:

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.

 

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

 

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It can be found here

British bomb manual

I also found his one

The Legendary Avro 6 Bomb Carrier for the Mosquito