[303rd-Talk] Looking for Tyler Weems

[Bill Jones]

> 
> Pardon me:
> But I just read the dialogue and I was wondering if it was the same war
> I flew in.  One refers to (a real Bombardier)  What is a real
> Bombardier? I flew 41 missions as a navigator. But I went to both
> schools so I was dual rated. Am I real Bombardier?  

Sorry.. Perhaps a poor choice of words.   I was trying to differentiate 
between bombardiers and togglers.
Perhaps I've been misinformed, but I was under the impression that 
there were officers trained as bombardiers, but that later in the war 
the bombardiers were deemed necessary only on the lead and deputy lead 
planes, and on the other planes in a squadron the bombardiers were 
often replaced by "togglers" that didn't undergo quite as much training 
as that which bombardiers went through. 
  Anyway, that's what I was trying to differentiate between, ie 
bombardiers vs togglers, as I think that was the reason that 
bombardiers were often pulled off crews after they reached Molesworth, 
such as in this example, since the Lacker crew's bombardier was 
replaced by a toggler. 

 
Bill Jones         N3JLQ
Sweden Maine
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