Out Of Gas

We were coming home and, he couldn't get, couldn't get height enough to, to go through the Alps so we went around them. And he flew along the coast of Italy 'til he came to a valley. But there was a whole burst of clouds coming through this valley and on either side you could see mountains. So why he ever did it I don't know, but he went up this valley where there was nothing but clouds. And we had dropped our bombs and we were running low on gas, I remember that. And we threw everything out, everything that we could possibly throw except we didn't throw the rear-gunner, the guns out of the rear turret. We kept those and quite a bit of, quite a bit of ammo. But we los . . . we threw a lot of ammunition out because it's heavy. Anyway, we made it back alright but they went out the next morning and the mechanics they went out, started up the engines and just got them all going and they all quit. Were out of gas.