Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

Hello Ian, Sorry for the late reply. Vince was shot down the night of 9/10 March 1943. Pete

Thanks for the heads-up Ian. I just ordered a copy of 7 Sqdn from Amazon UK. Pete

Hi Ian, Thanks for your reply. Do you know if your grandfather ever mentioned meeting any of the Canadian boys he was locked up with? Also, do you have any information on how I could contact any 7 Sqdn historical assn or veterans groups associated with the squadron? Thanks Pete

Is that a stylalized "Maple Leaf" behind Blondie? Could this be a Canadian aircraft?

Thanks John, We get dumped on enough by the "spambombers" from this side of the pond. Cheers, Pete

In the early stages of BC was there not a "belly" turret on the heavy bombers? If yes, would there have been a dedicated bottom gunner. This would have saved a lot of crews from "Schrage Musik".

Hi Max, I thank you for helping me in my quest. Any information is better than no information. My email is petefox' at ' rogers.com . Again Thanks, Pete

Footnote - I've edited Peter's email address as not to get plastered with spam.

Replace 'at' with @.
John

Max if there is any cost involved in looking up the ORB's for 7 Sqdn when you go to the NA on 5 Dec, let me know and I can send you a money order. Thanks again Pete

I know how you feel Alan, its the Koreans buying up everything here. Best fish n' chips I ever ate were from a little chip shop at the very end of the rail-line in Portland, they were wrapped in waxedpaper but had newspaper wrapped around the outside to keep the heat in.

Hi Bob, That was a great posting. I see the Stirlings were marked MG, I believe that is 7 Squadron is it not? Would you or anybody else on this site have the ORB info for this raid? Pete