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Heinkel He176

I would have thought that streams of tracer would look more dramatic than a few flak bursts.

Maybe they should have employed that winch for the undercarriage of an Annie.

I also liked the clip of the 4 Ju52's in formation.

Looks like an early attempt at making a VTOL out of a Battle.

John, I went to the 467/463 Squadron Lunch here in Brisbane. We only had two veterans present, one of whom marched. A current Naval Officer marched with the Squadrons instead of with his Naval group. He had been told that he couldn't wear his grandfather's medals (467) and march with the Navy seeing...

See, I was right.

British!!!

Max, he also scored 83.8% on his Navigation Course. He was a Pilot Officer before being shipped to the UK in September 43 and by July 44, when he finished at 1661 HCU as part of Eric's crew, he was a Flying Officer. After the war he remained in the Canadian Forces until late 1949. With those results...

In the Canadian log book I'm looking at the result sheet show: Gunnery: 200yd range, Air to Ground, Free Astern, Under Tail, Beam, Beam R.S., Night Bombing: H.L Group, H.L. Applic, H.E., H.L. Moving, L.L., Night Group Exert from log book Bomb Aimer – Air Work Exercise - Dropped - In Yards Radius - A...