Dresden and the Heavy Bombers by Musgrove Frank;

Author:Musgrove, Frank; [Musgrove, Frank;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2005-04-20T23:00:00+00:00

The former pupils of the secondary grammar schools, with their Matric and perhaps HSC, rose magnificently, at times heroically, to their country’s challenge. The challenge called for great technical skill and quick intelligence as well as high courage. As pilots and navigators they were tailor-made for the job. They were often afraid and reluctant to carry on, but the vast majority did. They did not need leaders and formal structures. They simply got on with it.

The Master Bomber was no more than a traffic policeman – rather less, because there were no sanctions he could possibly apply to those, say, who might be ‘bombing short’. The only ‘discipline’ was the track laid down for us to follow and the airborne camera that automatically photographed the target we had actually bombed. I suppose we might have gone nowhere near the designated target and flown for a time to somewhere relatively safe. (Where in any case was safe?) But camera or no camera, I don’t think it ever occurred to us to do that – although some crews did actually fly to neutral Sweden and Switzerland (perhaps because they had technical problems) – and found safety for the rest of the war.

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