TO HELL AND BACK IN A HAMPDEN

摘要

It was the night before Christmas, and all the Hampden pilots were nestled snug in their beds - until an order came to bomb Brest Harbour at dawn. Wg Cdr PETER McDERMOTT DFC DFM recalls a less than festive YulernDT WAS A stupid raid, ill-conceived and rather pointless. The chances of doing any serious damage were slender, the probability of the loss of all six aircraft originally detailed was very high and the briefed tactics were lamentable.rnTo begin at the beginningrnFor me it began with hilarity and ended more or less the same way.