Sitting inside a B-25 showed me why Remembrance Day isn’t something we can take lightly

By : Michel Maisonneuve

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Here I was, sitting in the rear gun turret of our Mitchell B-25 bomber, with all my senses on guard and my head on a swivel. The day was clear, the sky couldn’t be bluer, and the danger of enemy fighters coming at us with the sun at their back felt almost certain.

Luckily, we had just finished our bombing run and were on our way back to base. Our experienced pilot, Major David Rohrer, co-pilot Liam Pearson, and flight engineer Jessica Side had managed to get us to the target unscathed, and we now only had to cross the water to make it home.

Suddenly, Dave took evasive action, jerking the plane up and to the right in an almost barrel roll. Cool as cucumb

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