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When we were there my navigator came to me and he said 'Would you like to be with us?'
He had crewed up with a pilot and they asked me and each one asked somebody. That's how we crewed up, just got together more or less. Well my pilot was from Western Australia. My navigator was from Western Australia. My bomb aimer was from New South Wales, from Sydney. The engineer, my engineer was from England and the rear gunner was from England and the mid upper gunner was from South Africa, so we were a mixed crew.
We had a marvellous crew. They were all good. The pilot was good, yeah, so all very good, yes. The bomb aimer he lay down in the front in the nose. The pilot and engineer were at the controls. Next to them was the navigator. Next to him was myself about halfway down the aircraft. Just above me was the mid upper gunner and then the tail gunner was down at the end of the aircraft.
When I was in the Wellingtons, I controlled the heater and, of course, I'd control it for myself but the others would be freezing. The heater was right beside me. They'd say 'Turn it up' but I'd cook if I turned it up so I controlled the heater there. In the Lancaster, I controlled the heat but it did everybody much the same.
