I guess the answer would be in Quill’s logbook, wherever that is. Also, might he have mentioned it in one of the books he wrote?

Makes sense to me too……..

Something to do with bomb aiming, or gunner training, perhaps?

Regarding the ‘camera photo’, I’m not sure that this helps, but I do know that some of the Wellingtons serving with No.1845 B&G Flight, at RAF Syerston in early 1944, had cameras of some sorted fitted into their rear turrets.  I don’t know when these aircraft arrived, but I believe the Flight had previously been at Dunholme Lodge, Fulbeck and Skellingthorpe and probably elsewhere. I thought that might just give you something to work on. Good luck! Andrew

I completed the survey and added what I hope were useful comments, but I’m not actually sure that the survey went through…. Great! ?

Reviving a very old thread. The pilot of this aircraft was F/L William George Baker (DFM) 51161. He is recorded as having being liberated from German capture on 4th May 1945 and thus survived the war – relinquishing his RAF commission on 18th July, 1949.

“Why are we all here?” asked the speaker, rhetorically – and a voice from the back said “Because we’re not all there!” – Not that I’m questioning our collective sanity…….?