Fighter! Fighter! Corkscrew Port!: Vivid Memories of Bomber Aircrew in World War Two by Pat Cunningham

Author:Pat Cunningham [Cunningham, Pat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783407835
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2012-04-18T21:00:00+00:00

Before our tour finished, however, there was one piece of lightish relief during a fighter-affiliation exercise that had a strong element of the hush-hush. Certainly, only navigator Dave Brewster and Dick, as captain, were given all the details, leaving the rest of us to anticipate a run-of-the-mill engagement. The attackers that eventually appeared, however, were not the Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang or Thunderbolt playmates we had become used to exercising with, but twin-engined machines trailing thick black smoke, which closed swiftly, and then zipped past at such an enormous rate that the gunners found the greatest difficulty in tracking them. On landing, and learning what our adversaries had been, we felt that we had played a part in aviation history, for our attackers had been Gloster Meteor jet-propelled fighters! Lucky for us, we all agreed, that they were on our side, and that their guns too, were loaded only with film.

Then the day came, on 6 December 1944, when we had just one op left. We were understandably a bit apprehensive. We were so close now!

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