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<blockquote data-quote="St Helens RLFC" data-source="post: 287153"><p>My grandad was in the RAF. He was actually a Dambuster, tail gunner in the Lancaster bombers, though in his better days (he's had a stroke and it would have a better quality of life if he died, god bless him) he used to go to GREAT lengths to tell me he wasn't on THE dambusters mission, seeing as it was a total disaster.</p><p></p><p>He met my nan during the war (she died in 1990) and talking about it used to upset him and make him think of her. He managed to talk about it a lot more lately, telling me stories of how bullets missed his head by inches, how the plane almost had to ditch once because an engine got shot out, about dropping bombs on Berlin and Nuremburg. His favourite story though didn't involve his plane. A Lancaster bomber had gone up fully fuelled and full of munitions, but had to return due to bad weather. As it was landing the landing gear wouldn't come down, so they had to abort the final approach and land with no gears, with the full shebang aboard.</p><p></p><p>Grandad told me how as it was coming in to land the whole base started retreating away from the runway, including the fire trucks! Thankfully though the plane stayed in one piece, and flew again later that day, complete with working landing gear and full crew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="St Helens RLFC, post: 287153"] My grandad was in the RAF. He was actually a Dambuster, tail gunner in the Lancaster bombers, though in his better days (he's had a stroke and it would have a better quality of life if he died, god bless him) he used to go to GREAT lengths to tell me he wasn't on THE dambusters mission, seeing as it was a total disaster. He met my nan during the war (she died in 1990) and talking about it used to upset him and make him think of her. He managed to talk about it a lot more lately, telling me stories of how bullets missed his head by inches, how the plane almost had to ditch once because an engine got shot out, about dropping bombs on Berlin and Nuremburg. His favourite story though didn't involve his plane. A Lancaster bomber had gone up fully fuelled and full of munitions, but had to return due to bad weather. As it was landing the landing gear wouldn't come down, so they had to abort the final approach and land with no gears, with the full shebang aboard. Grandad told me how as it was coming in to land the whole base started retreating away from the runway, including the fire trucks! Thankfully though the plane stayed in one piece, and flew again later that day, complete with working landing gear and full crew. [/QUOTE]
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