Keith was a tailgunner on a Lancaster Bomber towards the end of World War Two. He went to England in April 1944, and for a year he smoked a lot, got in some fights, met some interesting men and women, and waited. This blog is based on the letters he wrote to his mother in 1944-45.
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Shooting down a Junkers 88
Letter from Keith to his mother, June 19 1944.
'Mary wrote me a very nice long letter ... she seems awfully nice & invited me down to their place when I get leave, the last letter too was from Phillip, he expects to move in soon, he shot down a Ju 88 over Caen on the second day of the invasion, he says it turned on its back & made a power dive into the deck, ... I think he must be a pretty good pilot.'
Here's a little tune about the Junkers 88, Germany's most prolific bomber plane.
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