Evasion Tactics

The coast is usually your safe haven. Once you cross the coast, it’s only a matter of twenty minutes or so and you’re probably going to be in Britain and you’re gonna be in more, safe haven. So my tactic was always that once we drop the bomb load, I’d put the nose down and lose a little bit of altitude and losing the altitude gave you, just like your car running down hill, you could pick up speed. So you’d probably pick up, oh 30 to 50 extra mile an hour depending on how much altitude you lost. And this would give you forward speed plus change your altitude because the night fighters knew what altitude you went through the target at because in some cases they were not beside you, but they could see what level you picked. So they were anticipating you would come out at that altitude. So I would perhaps be 500 or 1000 feet, 2000 feet below that altitude depending on where you came across me.