Going out with the Range Crew

We used to go out with the range crew and they had a Lysander that used to tow a drogue and the fellows that were on the gunnery course they used to get up on the Ansons and fire at that drogue so when we got out to the range they used to drop the drogue and then we from the range crew used to go and pick it up and then we’d count all the bullets that was in there and we’d put his name beside it and put it on the log form and then we’d take it back to the base. And then they had the one for the bombing, they used to go up and have smoke bombs and bomb the trees that were on frozen lakes. And if a sergeant says you gotta drive on that lake and I said, “It’s frozen? ’ and he said, “I guarantee it’s three or four feet deep,” and he says, “I want you to go so far and then we’ll go and see where the smoke bomb had landed near this tree.” This was the bombing crew. So it was very exciting, I learned a lot!