A daily telegraph newspaper report of 10/10/11 quotes the confession of bernard mccormack, a 61 sqdn lancaster air gunner who made a tape recording before his death, confessing that he had shot down the mosquito, believing it to be a ju88 night fighter No ju88s appear to have been lost that night. Gibson’s log book, which he had last updated on 16th september, shows he had flown 9 hours and 35 minutes on mosquitos up to this point, but this was only his second operation in the type. He was the first commanding officer of no 617 squadron, which he led in the dam busters raid in 1943, resulting in the breaching of two large dams in the ruhr area of germany He was awarded the victoria.
None of these has been proved, but i beleive that gibson's over confidence, resulted in him flying low, being hit by flak, and was unable to control the mosquito, due to his inexperiance on the type Hope this is of interest Gibson vc dso & bar dfc & bar (19 sept Sergeant bernard mccormack was in a formation of 227 lancaster bombers and 10 mosquitoes in an attack on germany in september 1944. There is little to be gained from attempts to reconcile gibson’s flight path and the mosquito’s fuel capacity with the possible tank change point and the location of the crash There are too many variables, including how full the tanks were, the flight path flown, winds and how long gibson loitered over the target.
(guy) gibson and j.b.warwick were killed Both victims are buried on the cemetery at steenbergen Mosquito kb 267 crashed here 19 september 1944 captain wing commander g.p
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