My wife and I were talking about the stuff it took to be a bomber crew member just last night. Out to dinner and were talking about her father. He passed when she was a teen and she knows little about his service except that he was a bomber pilot, and that his plane shot down on a mission to Germany. He somehow evaded capture (later found out two crew members were killed, the rest finished the war in a stalag). it took months but eventually he returned to England and flew again. He also served in Korea and eventually retired from the reserves a Lt Colonel.
No one in the family knows the details of his "adventure" other than that- the only thing that remains is a letter stating his plane was lost and he was listed as missing.
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