Lone bomber attack on the airbase
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Lone bomber attack on the airbase
A real coincidence at that station, 402 Squadron was on one side
of the airfield, by this time 401 had come over or been formed
over there, and it was on the other side of Digby. And we were
getting the airplanes that were on standby, took off on both
sides of the field. We were out, I was out doing my job at,
on an airplane one day, and a big Heinkel or Dormer dropped
out of the clouds right above me, I could, you know, see the
guy's beard almost and he went over and bombed, dropped a
bomb on the, it was several bombs, in the living area and hangar.
At that time the operations people had kept all of the aircraft
on the ground, on both 401 and 402, and MacGregor was our
CO at the time, he was later head of Air Canada. He was just
furious and he went over and chastised the, whoever's responsible
in operations, for not scrambling the airplanes. It was about
two weeks later, almost an identical thing happened, a lone
bomber came and dropped out the clouds. At this time, both
squadrons scrambled, they scrambled eight or ten airplanes each,
and there was just airplanes all over. But, in the meantime,
the guy pulled up in the clouds and was lost, got lost. But those
are the only two occasions that are actually came under fire.
The second incident I was in getting pay, I was going on leave,
getting a little advance in pay and we heard the sirens going and
the bombs dropping all around the building. There were about ten
of us ended up underneath the table, I think. It was a bit dicey,
I guess, we lost a few, a couple of people.
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