LIONEL,
     In a message dated 01-26-98 you wrote ...
> My dad was a Flight Engineer on Halifax IIIs. He had been an
> Observer/Airgunner with the RAuxAF 130-1934, but didn't want to end up
> in a turret inhis mid thirties.
  You had some rather old one flying the wimpys and other as
 gunners.
> I followed the family tradition and was a Navigator/Bombaimer on
> Canberras, my final tour was as Station Bombing Office at RAF Scampton
> back in the Vulcan days.
   I never flew the B-57 (our Canberra) but had friends that did.
 the high altitude version was something. They were reworked where
 I was stationed. My last 8 years was as Radar-Navigator (bombaimer)
 on B-52Fs...
   I hated it when Macnamara cancelled the Sky Bolts that we
 were to carry on B-52s and you on the V-bombers... Best
 stand off weapon ever devised...
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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