On 16 December 1943, I was sitting at the Navigator’s seat in a very noisy Lancaster bomber over Berlin when something occurred that changed the pattern of my life. We had just dropped 13,000 pounds of bombs… a 4,000 pound “cookie” plus incendiaries and we were stooging along at 163 mph (280 km/ hr) taking infra-red photographs for the first time in WW2, when we were attacked from below by a German night fighter which hit the port wing and fuselage, setting the wing on fire and wrecking my instrument panel.
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机译：1943年12月16日，当事情发生了改变了我的生活模式时，我坐在柏林非常嘈杂的兰卡斯特轰炸机的座位上。 我们刚刚下降了13,000磅的炸弹......一个4,000磅的“饼干”加赎罪，我们沿着163英里/小时（280 km / hr）沿着WW2的第一次在WW2中拍摄了163英里/小时（280公里/小时），当我们从下面袭击 德国夜间战斗机撞到了港口翼和机身，将机翼着火并破坏了我的仪器面板。
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