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Duties of a Weapons Technician
Mr. LeBlanc explains his duties and functions as weapons technician with the Sabre aircraft.
Dangerous friends
Mr. Bower-Binns describes the risks from accompanying aircraft when a bomber formation converged on its target.
Safety in numbers
Mr. Bower-Binns discusses the relative safety of flying within a formation.
A Berlin bombing run
Mr. Bower-Binns gives a detailed description of flying to Berlin, accurately delivering a bomb load, having an engine disabled by flak, and managing to limp home.
Sympathy for the Enemy
Mr. Taylor describes having to search German prisoners and the empathy he felt for them.
Interrogation
After the British took over a concentration camp in Esterwegen, Mr. Decker was sent into interrogate the German staff.
Coning and Night Fighters
Mr. Campbell describes the German tactic of coning, illuminating enemy aircraft with powerful search lights so they could be attacked, and what German pilots did if coned by their own lights.
Problems in the Bombing Stream
Mr. Campbell describes how missing your bomb drop meant exiting and re-entering the bomber stream for a second try, and how dangerous this could be.
American Generosity
Mr. MacDonald describes being hosted in style at an American camp during a trip back to his own regiment in post-war Germany.
Saving a man’s life
Mr. Weicker talks about saving a man's life.
Bombing Operations
The bombing operations that were flown were mostly heavy concentrations of bombers and targeted heavily industrial areas in the Ruhr Valley.
Reaction of German Nationals
Mr.Ethell talks about the reaction of the German nationals with whom he had contact while serving with NATO in Germany between 1962 and 1963.
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