Posted by Goose on April 30, 2018 at 10:16:49 from (166.182.86.36):
In Reply to: Halifax Bomber posted by centash on April 30, 2018 at 07:10:24:
In the book, "Ghosts of the Air", by Martin Cadin, a story is told about one Halifax.
One was flown by a Polish crew and was returning from a bombing mission over Germany in WWII. The plane was shot up so bad that it was barely controllable. The pilot, a Sergeant, was mortally wounded and knew he had only minutes to live, and his chance of making a successful landing were basically nil. When they neared their base in England the pilot ordered his crew to bail out. He then attempted a landing, but overshot the runway and the plane sank in a bog off the end of the runway. Ten minutes later, there was no trace of it.
A few minutes later, a chaplain was walking across the base when a Sergeant in a bloody flight suit approached out of the dark and asked, "Sir, could you direct me to the Sergeant's mess?" The chaplain gave directions, but no Sergeant in a bloody flight suit showed up at the mess.
For years after, randomly, someone would be walking across the base at night and a Sergeant in a bloody flight suit would appear out of the darkness and ask for directions to the Sergeant's mess. And no Sergeant in a bloody flight suit ever showed up at the mess.
Fast forward to sometime in the early 1970's. England decided to reclaim some of the bog off the end of the runway. A large floating backhoe clanked on something metallic below the water surface, and pulled up the remains of a Halifax bomber with the pilot's skeletal remains still at the controls. The pilot's remains were given a proper burial with full military honors.
And no Sergeant in a bloody flight suit ever again appeared out of the darkness and asked for directions to the Sergeant's mess again.
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