Like many British and Canadian bomber pilots during World War II, Jeff Jeffery flew most of his missions at night. to avoid German fighters. He took the four-engine Handley Page Halifax Mk.7 across the English Channel 32 times between July and Christmas Evv, 1944, to bomb German industrial cities along the Rhine, lie remembers seeing enormous blue search lights roving the sky to find the bomber fleets for German anti-aircraft gunners. "You had about 10 seconds to get out of that light," Jeffery remembers. "I saw six aircraft go down one night."
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