"JUST LIKE GRAND NATIONAL."
LANCASTERS' HEDGE-HOPPING FLIGHT. A vivid account of the hedgehopping dash by giant Lancaster bombers across France in daylight to bomb the Le Creusot arms wcrks was given by a sergeant pilot. "As we all took the hedges it was like the Grand National except that there were no falls," he said. "Some of the French waved, all the animals bolted as we roared over their heads. We saw no fighters, but a duck came with a wallop through the windscreen. "All the way over there were cther Lancasters on each side of us," he continued. "We got to Le Creusot just after sunset. We couid see the factory dead clear. "A stiek of bombs from another aircraft dropped in front of us right across the works, then we dropped our stick parallel to it. Buildings just flopped apart. There was a red flash in the middle of one building*, and it was not there any more. In a little while all we could see was clouds of smoke with red fires and bombs hurstine* inside " —
B.O.W.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 5
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180"JUST LIKE GRAND NATIONAL." Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 5
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