A High Casualty Rate Inquiry
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A High Casualty Rate Inquiry
We did have high casualty rates, very high in the Boston's.
But there was such tremendous losses that politically,
Mackenzie King was having troubles. And so he sent a high-level
group of, of officers over to see what happening to these fine
Canadian citizens. Who were laying down their life for their king
or whatever. And they, this, on this particular day when they
were here it was absolutely no visibility, you could hardly drive
on the road. And it was raining most of the time, but that
didn't influence these generals or equivalents that were there.
They'd been sent to, to find out all there was there. They wanted
to see the squadron in action. Well it was crazy you know in
that weather. Normally everyday we did a, a night flying test.
You run up the engines and do a flight and check that everything
is going to operate pretty well at night and, so eventually we
took off to ostensibly look for a place, a target that they had
mentioned. And I don't know what these guys really thought they
could see, but we found, we circled around a place where I
calculated we were. Nobody was shooting at us or anything like
that and we eventually headed for home.
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