I was to learn that one of my air gunners had sold the sheep, and he seemed to go into hiding.

The crew consisted of the pilot, an observer and an air gunner.

Then the squadron started to lose their defiants and air gunner were no longer needed.

When rotated down it would give the air gunner, armed with a rear gun position, a full field of fire.

During the War it was used principally as a training base, particularly for the training of air gunners.

Another area of training was for air gunnery handled by the pilot or a specialist air gunner.

Dunstan received some attention from the media as a one-legged air gunner who had completed a full tour of 30 missions.

He was an observer and air gunner in the Royal Air Force.

During 1937, McAloney completed a part-time air gunner course.

During the war he met Terence Rattigan who was then a wireless operator and air gunner.

The Squadron carried out various exercises with ships and provided towed targets for naval air gunners.

The citation read "This officer has a long and meritorious record as an air gunner, having been engaged in night flying for nearly 3 years.

Following the bomb drop, the Lincolns would wheel in at low level allowing the air gunners to heavily strafe the target area.

Many aircrew musterings, such as air gunner, became redundant and the entire bombing technique took on a new chapter.

Their task was to train pilots, observers and air gunners, men only recently signed up and grateful for any preparation, however basic.

Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer.

Jimmy Grimm, like most of the wireless operators, was a trained air gunner and he enjoyed the view that the turret afforded him.

His air gunner on 98 claims was Oberfeldwebel Wilhelm Gänsler.

At the start of World War II he enrolled as an air gunner, but was soon transferred to ground staff.

The aircraft could be used for training navigators, bomb-aimers, wireless operators, air gunners and camera operators.

After service as a soldier he was trained as an observer and air gunner and was commissioned.

They were thickset young men chosen, like most air gunners, for the short stature that enabled them to fit into the power-operated turrets.

With the specialisation required in aircrew for the heavy bombers of Bomber Command, air gunners became a separate category.

The Squadron convered to Supermarine Spitfires, which did not require air gunners.

In November 1940, Sumner was offered to retain as a radar operator, but he chose to remain in the trade of air gunner.