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Reg Davie | Reg Davie Navigator on Stirlings, Lancasters and Mosquitos. In 1942 Reg Davey was with 218 Squadron flying Stirlings and was one of the decoys for Guy Gibson's dams raid. After leaving the RAF in 1946, Mr Davey joined the civil service, working for the labour exchange. Reg remembered a night where his plane was caught in searchlights and hit by ground fire. 'We got blasted to pieces. The windscreen bashed in. I lent the pilot my goggles from my navigation bag but all my maps and charts were blown away. I never got the goggles back.<\i>' The stricken plane was headed west. 'We landed with a burst tyre and crashed it in a heap.<\i>' He adopted a protective mindset regarding those who did not return from missions. 'You thought: 'That's OK, they're prisoners of war.' They weren't. They were blown to pieces.' |
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