A, SIL’IUIU'! MacDonald D.F.C., M.D. C..M.

a plane, dragged by a steel cable, and when the pilot said, ”Lets go home" the rear Gunner would shoot off the drogue. I felt that one who could cutoff a wire about a mile away, could hit an enemy fighter. He could knock off skeets by the dozens - they were like saucers that flew through the air and when my turn came, I said to the lSergeant ”How far ahead do you aim?” and he held his hands about two and a half feet apart. I shot down 15 out of the first 20 each time - I hit once and he would say, “how far" but on the next 20, from a different angle, I never hit one.

I was glad when we got a Lancaster bomber on the next station. One thing in favour of the Halifax bombers, they did not take the bomb loads of the Lancasters and, therefore, did not take long trips into the distant German bombing targets. Trips to France were given 3 points and to Germany 4 points - the total was 108 points and one got the OP Wing, the aim of all airmen, and it meant you were still alive to wear it. Of course, at that early stage I was not thinking about points. Sgt. McCord had some tall stories of his experiences, away back many feet from the rest of the crew. When he saw a fighter on our tail, he started calling out, ”Prepare for corkscrew” and then he would call out the distance between us by 100 yards and when he figured 600 yards, he called, ”Corkscrew” and the Pilot dropped one wing and dove down in a power dive. Of course, we were getting better navigation equipment in the later part of the war, and the Germans were pushed further back, and fixes were easier to get over France. The third, fourth and fifth raids were over France. The last trip we were to help the Canadian army by bombing the German troops. All Navigators were told not to allow the Bomb Aimer to bomb by locking the switch above our desk until we were over France for 10 minutes. The bombing area would be

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