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Old 04-04-2008, 08:09 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I don't believe that the would have gone up without a flask of tea!

Who looked after that?

And I am not being funny either.
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I don't believe that the would have gone up without a flask of tea!

Who looked after that?

And I am not being funny either.
That would be the responsibility of the Catering department because aircrew were also given sandwiches for the flight as well.

But I think that she is carrying a parachute.
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That would be the responsibility of the Catering department because aircrew were also given sandwiches for the flight as well.

But I think that she is carrying a parachute.
Agree with the parachute.
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I seem to recall seeing an estimate of over 7000 personnel on a station for just one bomber squadron of 21 aircraft. This is from memory so i could be wrong.
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That is a cool picture! Thanks for sharing.

In researching about my uncle, I have read that 60 B-17's were lost on one raid. That's 600 men! Now think of the number of men behind those air craft. One hell of an effort it was.

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I count 46 people in that picture. Would all these people have been allocated solely to that one aircraft; would some of them have worked with several aircraft or across the whole base?
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I count 46 people in that picture. Would all these people have been allocated solely to that one aircraft; would some of them have worked with several aircraft or across the whole base?
I do not know about the Parachute rigger or the armourers, but most aircraft of that time had dedicated ground crews. it was only later on that the RAF moved to the new system where aircraft werre allocated ground crew as and when necessary!
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