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One night in 1944 I was in Leigh light Wellington bomber engaged in stopping u-boats sinking shipping coming from America to England bringing in supplies for the War effort. It was a very bright moonlit night and the u-boat was found by radar and we homed in onto this contact and attacked u-boat at 50 feet and dropped a stick of six depth chargers across the u-boat setting it on fire. We then were advised to home a liberator of the American air force onto the position we were in so that they could finally destroy the u-boat. In due course the liberator aircraft arrived and the u-boat was attacked again. From the intelligence to which we were enabled to read the u-boat was badly damaged but managed to get back to Loriant but was a write-off. This was one of the many sortis that I undertook over a period of four years. The pilot of my aircraft was wing commander J Russel and I was a navigator.

I completed two tours of operational flying having a rest in between at Leucharis instructing new crews in the art of bombing.

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