Upside Down in a Violent Storm

The weather was very bad and we’d gone through the south. We were coming back out over the Alps when we were hit by a terrible thunderstorm. We ran into something and the Halifax literally went up on its’ back and I know that because all the dirt and stuff on the floor of the aircraft ended up on the top of the turret so Vic, we fell and finally Vic got it all straightened out. We never spoke about it because you know the dirt was in my turret and everything was in a jumble, the parachutes had all disappeared somewhere in the aircraft. That was a frightening moment when it was almost upside down in the violent storm but there again, a good pilot got us out of that. Even Bill and I never talked about it until many years later we went deer hunting one time in the ‘50s and we both could laugh about it then, you know, but that was ten years later.