You'll have to send out search parties for the boys I'm afraid — they baled out overhead but this wind must have brought them down miles away.
As for me, well I thought I'd better try to bring the kite back having signed for it.
Close run thing, but the ground crew tell me that I only bent stuff that was already shot to pieces anyway — which was about everything.
Two engines, undercart, bomb sight, nose turret, navigators station, ammo tracks, wing root, O2 for everything forward of the mid upper, Starboard aileron, Port elevator, windscreen, punctured fuel tanks, brakes, — we got shot to bits. Again.
And into the bargain we bloody well missed.