BBCNEWS We Were There June 4, 2024 08:48:00
In a bomber, then, i was in halifax bomber, you would have seven people. a pilot, a navigator, a bomb aimer, a radio operator, two gunners and a flight engineer. and all the lads that i were with were all canadians. and really, you did have to look after each other and look after yourselves. and we managed to get through 31 operations in bomber command. as the flight engineer, you had to make sure that mechanically everything on the aircraft worked perfectly.
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