SERGEANT PILOT’S STORY
HEDGEHOPPING DASH ACROSS
COUNTRY 'Rec. 1.10 p.m.) Rugby, Oct. 18. A vivid account of the hedgehopping dash across France to bomb the Le Creusot works was given by a Sergeant Pilot: “As we all took the hedges it was like a Grand National except there was no falls. Some of the French waved and all 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 other Lancasters on each side of us. We got to Le Creusot just after sunset. We could see the factory dead clear. A stick of bombs from another aircraft dropped iQ front of us right across the works. Then we dropped our stickparallel to it. The 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 se was clouds of smoke with red fires and bombs bursting inside.”—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 19 October 1942, Page 5
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