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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 57,101
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aap1966
Met a Lancaster crewman yesterday at a book signing. Flew 1944 to 1946.
Laurie Woods, DFC
94. Sharp as a tack.
Why do I admire those Bomber Command guys?
Killed in action...........51% (55,573)
Killed in crashes ..........9%
Seriously injured in crashes...3%
Prisoners of War.........12%
Evaders......................1%
Survivors unharmed...24%
All volunteers.
Bomber command casualties even at that latter stage of the war exceeded ground force casualties. And yet every week they climbed back into the Lancasters.
That's courage.
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I think I remember reading an article on BBC.com/news that said that at one point the life expectancy of a Lancaster crew member was 2 weeks.
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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