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08-11-05, 11:06
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The significance of that night is slightly different to me - it was as older members of this forum may recall the night my uncle was killed piloting a Hampden off the Dutch coast while attacking German shipping. He was an Australian attached to 415 (Swordfish) squadron RCAF.
I have a page of pics on my site. As for the film there was an article in Aeroplane Monthly some years ago about it with some comment about how a number of the shots were reversed so the aircraft would appear to be flying in the same direction. I've also heard the stories about how the raid was relatively inconsequential to the Germans, but what a legendary event it has become to us in the ensuing years. I read the Paul Brickhill book when I was about 13 and was totally engrossed. The Lancaster had a flight engineer in addition to the pilot - Col is correct there. Incidentally the Temora Hudson flies with a "Co-pilot" whose duties are those of a flight engineer.
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