So sorry to hear this news met him years ago Rip 😢

Brilliant piece of aviation history.

Wonderful to hear Quentin again. What year did you do this tour? Now his great grandson can hear and see him too

must have been Essendon tulla did not open till 1970

Great respect for Jean and the other aviation pioneers, but I'd rather she throws herself out of a perfectly-functional aircraft than me! I like my feet on Terra Firma - the more firma the less terra! My daughter and granddaughter have both done parachute jumps, but it's definitely not for me.

Incredible! The stories they may have had!

Hi Greg, I had the pleasure of meeting Nancy on two separate occasions when I was working at MCY. Took her to the Singapore Flying College and into our hanger to see the Hunter. She and they were both suitably impressed! I have a copy of that book she's signing for Jean; it's called, 'My God, It's A Woman!'

Excellent

Class

Poor guy he can’t remember much. They all HAD to wear gloves or they could not operate the guns.

He must have been a late replacement in the war as a rear gunner. Rear gunners had a life expectancy of 15-20 mins in the early years of the Bomber offensive over Germany. My friend John Cunningham bombed Berlin a few times and Dresden just two of his 59 Prangs over Nazi cities!

This guy did one tour as rear gunner with 466 squadron?? Ask him who his pilot was.

I knew John Cunningham who did three tours over Germany one of which was screen gunner training. John lived in Russell Lea in Sydney. I was the first person he ever talked to and gave me his own log books over Germany to peruse. I used to build WW2 Aircraft. So I built him his Halifax B G for George Replica. John was so thrilled with it. When John passed away his wife invited me around and we both had tea and looked through his WW2 photos. She said that John had the Halifax model on the TV until he passed away. John was a honourable man and I miss him. I have to say he had a educated upbringing.

What a story!

Wow, Amazing story!

Wow! Great story David! Although I've lived in the Brisbane area all my life (I was born in 1963), & don't recall this story ever being reported by our media. Was the perp prosecuted, or did it all just 'get swept under the carpet'?

Booze and larrickans, receipe for disaster.

The old bloke is wrong on who Keith Miller played footy for ... he played for the StKilda Football Club, not South Melbourne ( now the Sydney Swans )...

Hello ​@grud66 I'm currently researching the 462 sq which my Grandfather was a Bomb Aimer for. Would very much like to talk with you about your wonderful interviews with the squadrom members. If you get this please DM me. :-)

Thank you for this video because this is my pa and he died before I was born

Is Mr jubb still alive today? My grandfather in 466 sqd did 3 trips to the same target as Mr jubb.

Hi do you know when this was filmed please? Pretty sure my grandfather was the F/E on Langworthy’s crew in 462 Sqn

Good telling of these historic events.Does Len ever make it to Perth because we would love to offer him lunch at Jandakot for a talk. Contact Royal Aero Club, message to Old Fliers Group.

Fascinating Proud to know his daughter!♥️🤗

Thanks for the insight into one aspect and story on your service Mr Jubb. Thanks also for your fight against Nazi tyranny!

Oh that’s fantastic. I love Jubbys last line! So him!!!!

Wonderful stories of honest perspective. So much of his experience we could never comprehend, we can but listen. To hear him recount these real life stories is an absolute privilege. Thank you for everything Bill.

thanks for posting this

Great interview. Loved this man so much!

As a Load Controller at Brisbane Airport in the 70s-80s, MTOW was reached very quickly on a BNE-TSV legs when bad weather was on up north, full fuel required for max holding, Murphy always had it happen in school holidays, with a full load of PAX and all their holiday baggage. I can even remember a few times we actually weighed all the PAX and baggage to see if we could get below MTOW...bad move as that saw all up weight increase. In the end, the Captain asked me to take a certain number of bags off the loadsheet, but not physically off the aircraft. His call.......and he signed off on the loadsheet.

Great story! The same thing happend when Scandinavian Airlines, SAS flew from N.Y to Stockholm for the first time back in 1946. The aircraft was a DC-4. After take off the seat belt sign came off and one of the press went back in the aft galley and started talking to the crew. The rest of press did the same. After a while the FO comes running from the cockpit. He tells everyone to find their seats pronto! The trim is all the way aft and they are having a hard time controlling the aircraft .

Incredible! Wonderful footage!

This is my Uncle Henry Warren Penny

Great story. Football teams & aeroplanes don’t mix.

I was laughing all the way through. The FO poor guy.The pilots loved the DC9 back in those days. I remember coming into Melbourne one day from Adelaide & the pilot was skirting around a storm , flying it like a fighter. I loved it but I think there may have been a few people that didnt. Pilots had much more say on Fuel than today.

Lovely story, beautifully told.

Hi - This is my Great Uncle Alan. I found this video today looking for pics of his squadron for a VE photo display. So proud of him. Very odd feeling and sad though to see him chatting away like he's still with us. Sadly both Uncle Alan and Auntie Babs (Eileen) both passed away some years ago. They were lovely people. I didn't know the whole story and never liked to ask him. We only saw him every now and then as they lived in Australia and we in England but the family stayed close. They flew to see us when my son was born which was a lovely memory. I will be thinking of him tomorrow on 75 Years anniversary of VE Day. Michelle x

Understandably difficult to comprehend everything this fine and brave man is saying, but I would like to know what happened to the remainder of his crew.

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To learn more of this brave gentleman and wonderful leader read 'To see the dawn breaking.' Author W R Chorley. The Daily Telegraph provided a fulsome obituary. He passed away in 1994 aged 77 years. A son , Group Captain Robert Iveson has commanded 617 squadron .Pa would be chuffed !.

Keith Miller cricketer?

RIP Allan, lost my Uncle Ray Faulks in a Halifax on 6/4/45, german night fighter, RAF Heavy Conversion unit.

I have yet to find a monitor that doesn't completely trash the HF bands. The biggest mystery to me is how all those 'big guns' with NASA-type consoles operate. They must either know something I don't, or have such high neighbourhood noise levels that they don't realise.

I didn't know of David's passing until very recently. I would have certainly attended the service and taken the opportunity to meet up with any of the old Aero Heritage attendees.

Thank you for posting this. What a great anecdote! Keith Miller is my hero.

Such a privilege to hear your memories. RIP Allan

RIP Leo Britt.

Thank you for sharing your memories on here. They are so valuable. For me, at 46 years old, I am only just finding out about a man who was my grandfather. He died in February 1945 with the crew of NR121MPE. Three weeks later his son was born. A Scotsman who had emigrated to Canada in 1929 and to return to UK in 1944. Thank you

Great to hear the stories from real heroes!

Wonderful interview.