The Americans had sent over a flight of fourteen
Liberators which were a beautiful airplane except
they didn't have any armament in the front.
It took the Japanese zeros about two passes to
realize that there was no armor in front so
they shot them all down in one.
And so the Americans said, “Okay we should
be trying to fly under this stuff.”
So they said, “Does anyone have experience
in low level bombing?” “I do!”
And we showed them about low level
bombing which in the area is that high.
None of this fifty feet stuff.
The most accurate is low level when you're
down here you can't miss and you got about
eleven seconds to get the hell out of the way.
We had one guy when we were in,
first in Burma, there was a.... Japs were
pushing pretty well and this air vice marshall
offered my pilot a VC, posthumus VC if
he would bomb a bridge instantaneous.
My pilot told him to go to hell
because I would have gone too.