He was about 2 months younger than Keith.
The Flight Engineer on a Lancaster Bomber would have sat up front in the cockpit, next to the pilot. http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_crew_positions.htm
http://www.lancaster-archive.com/cockpit.jpg
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.
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