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Description
Mr. MacWilliam describes his first bombing run across the English Channel. He talks about his duties and responsibilities as a radio operator of a bomber.
Transcription
You kept radio silence. You, you didn't use your radio at all. The only way you'd . . . you didn't even listen. You listened all the time you're, you were in the air craft. Listened for a message. On one frequency your base, your base station, you listened for that. And well you, if they had decided that the raid was off, then they would send you a message in code to return to base. Well unfortunately I was on the wrong on the wrong frequency but fortunately they didn't tell us to return to base. That night. So we were alright but . . . Oh it wasn't, it wasn't too, too much fun in it. From the time you crossed the coast of France it was, you could see tracer bullets coming up at you from God knows any place. And you didn't know how much were the real stuff and how much was tracers but you, you could see the tracers coming. Fortunately most of them missed us. Or I guess all of them did that night anyway.