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  1. 17th May 2018, 07:03 PM #1
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    Audio from the past, Lancasters over Germany

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    Lancasters over Germany

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    In the same vein, was Edward R. Murrow's "Orchestrated Hell", when he took a ride over Berlin with a Lancaster crew.

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    A walk thru a Lancaster, not what I thought at all. How on Earth did they do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    A walk thru a Lancaster, not what I thought at all. How on Earth did they do it.

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    Bob, I have had short flights in a B17, B24, B25. I sat on the floor in a B17 in the waist gun position from Santa Ana near LA to Reno. We got quite high over the Sierras and I was bloody freezing. How they crewed these for 12 hours to Berlin or Eastern Europe and return in a European winter is beyond my imagination. The air crew must have been skinny kids. I had great trouble squeezing between the bomb racks to get up to the cockpit from the waist guns. I could not fit down the hatch in the floor between the cockpit and the nose positions. The noise was horrendous.
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    Most of the men who flew in these aircraft were smaller than most of us today. Remember that by and large these were young men - 18-20 - who would have grown up during the great depression, when a large proportion of people in industrialised countries actually went hungry for significant periods of time. And only a few of them would have benefited as small children from the advances made in knowledge about nutrition for growing bodies that developed in the 1920-30s.

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