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Incendiary bomb run at a German city, 1943.


Kimosabi

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You've got the name right JP, yeah, they had to continue on course for 30 seconds after the drop so they would get a shot of their bombs exploding. Failure to do so once led to some tough questions for the crew back at base, failure twice would mean being branded LMF and demoted to the lowest possible ranks including loss of commission for officers. Bomber Command were tough on what was viewed as cowardice to the point where there were several recorded instances of men taking their own lives rather than have LMF stamped on their records.

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