A Plane With No Propellers!

Which actually were like a (inaudible) fighter, those Lancasters could do anything. Like one time over Hamburg we had two of those Me 262's after us. We'd never seen a jet, you know we'd seen these, these German fighters. Anyway, we were over Hamburg a day time trip and tail gunner says, " Fighter, fighter, starboard go!" So, flew, put the Lancaster in a course route to the starboard and so I got my camera to take a picture of this, cause I knew he'd break to the port. So, the funniest thing, I got the camera, and I look and here's that plane with the big crosses on the wings, sitting out there, with no propellers. And I put the camera down because I thought our tail gunner shot his propellor's off. It never struck me what it was, it was a jet. We'd never seen a jet before, I'd never seen an air plane with no propellers. So I put the camera down and ah, then by the time I got it up there's two black puffs of smoke and he was gone. But I kept watching where he went, he went off to our port, course he's going about five hundred miles an hour we're going two hundred. But it's a good thing I kept my eyes peeled, where he went, cause he turned, he made a U-turn and he came back. And all I saw was a little, a little thing in the distance, and this little thing got bigger. And all of a sudden it grew wings and I realized it was his coming, him coming back at five hundred miles an hour, I'd never seen anything going that fast. So all I had time to do was yell, "Skip, port!" And he says, "I see him." And he stood that Lancaster on it's wings, which it could do and just dove right down, of course out of his gun sights because he's going so fast. And so they, we got through those two attacks, because he was going five hundred and we were going two hundred, all you gotta do is make a, if you see them, and do a sharp turn he can't get his guns bearing on ya so...Oh yeah it was a, it was an experience. Like I said, controlled terror every second you're up there.