Audio of Lancaster Crew over Berlin as they drop... and shoot down an intercepting NF

[RAF74_Buzzsaw]

You can hear the guns go off as the gunner spots the intercepting Nightfighter and shoots:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/schoolradio/subjects/history/ww2clips/sounds/bomber_crew

[HenryLuebberstedt]

Oh, very polite even under stress: "Hello Gunner, hello, navigator ..."

[Cybermat47]

Great find, Buzzsaw, thanks for sharing :)

Lancasters over Berlin were part of my very first (I think) experience of WWII aviation:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_apTD-4hxM

That Gustav is probably the reason I'm in love with 109s today :D

I also had the pleasure of listening to some RAAF Bomber Command veterans at the Temora Airshow ealier this year - and they'd all trained at Temora on Tiger Moths before heading off to Europe :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuUidsMFrJ8

I didn't catch it on film, but they mentioned someone who failed the pilot's course because of his poor navigation skills. He ended up serving in Bomber Command, not as a pilot, but as... a navigator :)

Also, one of those veterans was caught by a Schrage fighter over Norway, and had a engine set alight. The flight engineer put the extinguisher on the right wing, but the wrong engine. They had to fly back to Hawkinge on two engines out of four.