Interesting thread from another forum

Fascinating. Some wonderful mythology on there.

All Spitfires were painted green. The USAAF did the deep penetration stuff and the RAF mostly went South. Hadn’t realised there would be ‘rogue pilots’ from Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Still a great result.

Moggy

The “rogue pilots” comment would have gone down well on here, I imagine quite a number of people of many nationalities would not be impressed to see members of their families described as rogues.

However, I stand to be corrected and am willing to believe that this is definitely a Lancaster dial if somebody like Air Ministry comes along to tell me so!

Part of the auto-pilot system and not unique to the Lancaster: Stirling, Wellington and Halifax etc operating in that area would have had them fitted too.

Couldn’t get any of the crucial links to open so cannot see how convincing the evidence is that this piece can be linked to a particular aircraft. Hopefully, though, this is indeed a relic from poor old, ill fated PB477 and the family can be properly thrilled to have it in their possession.

I thought they handled it well with a pleasing outcome for the family… Result

I agree with Moggy. If the relatives are happy then that should be all that counts. Let’s not go on a cynical rivet counting tangent as we see all too often here. Leave sleeping dogs be.

The linking of component to a particular airframe would seem to be pretty tenuous and wouldn’t have slipped past here, but my view is that the relatives have something they can touch – is there anything to be served by digging deeper (figuratively and literally)?

Answering for Andy, probably ‘yes’ if there are crew to be recovered.

Discuss

Moggy

I have not had time to read and absorb the whole content of that thread, but unless I am missing something the tying of that find to a specific loss seems somewhat flawed. Have I missed something??

Not only that, but I am far from sure that this instrument is unique to Lancaster aircraft. I have seen something very similar in a Halifax wreck and, I believe, a Stirling. However, I stand to be corrected and am willing to believe that this is definitely a Lancaster dial if somebody like Air Ministry comes along to tell me so!

Also, was it just this instrument face that turned up? Nothing else?

Fascinating. Some wonderful mythology on there.

All Spitfires were painted green. The USAAF did the deep penetration stuff and the RAF mostly went South. Hadn’t realised there would be ‘rogue pilots’ from Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Still a great result.

Moggy