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     did not have a good run at a target, even over heavy flak 
     
     and German fighters, he would call for an overrun, to the 
     
     Pilot’s great disgust, because circling over a target for a 
     
     second run, one could bump into planes going over the 
     
     target dropping bombs, beside having to stay in a hot area 
     
     for a longer time. 
     
    

    
     When we got to Dishforth, we flew in Halifax 
     
     bombers, four engine planes. They are still used as 
     
     bombers. I never liked the planes - the Navigator had his 
     
     work room in the nose of the plane, and had to move out 
     
     on every takeoff and landing - which was the time one 
     
     had to fix up the Navigation charts, to be passed in to be 
     
     inspected at the end of each trip. We were only there a 
     
     month, and only flew five flights, only one at night. We 
     
     were always going off the runway as the throttles came 
     
     up in a straight line - the Pilot pushed up two and the 
     
     Engineer pushed up the other two. The more the Pilot 
     
     shouted, the more excited the Welsh was used by the 
     
     Engineer. They called the pilot ”Runway Roulston.” I 
     
     learned something - one day six crews were on a bombing 
     
     run, and all had different winds, which was a great factor 
     
     as they had to be set on the box set. We were like the blind 
     
     men of Industan who went to see an elephant; all claimed 
     
     they had the right wind. I found that where two lows and 
     
     two highs meet they give shifts of wind by the minutes, 
     
     as winds go clockwise around the high and counterwise 
     
     around the low. This occurs much more than we feel, after 
     
     about 70 hours of flying. 
     
    

    
     We only flew 25 hours at Dishforth - here we 
     
     picked up two gunners, Sgt. McKeel, upper Gunner, and 
     
     Sgt. McCord, the rear Gunner. 
     
    

    
     We had several trips shooting a drogue1 behind 
     
    

    
     1. A cone-shaped device towed behind an aircraft as 
     
     a target. 
     
    
   
   
    
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