Originally posted by mipoikel
And ofcourse you have a scanner and we can see those pics later today?
I was thinking about that. They have Crown Copyright stamped on the back, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt. The surfaced U-boat picture appeared in a book (and probably others) some years ago and also appears on a website about the wing, but my copy is far better and was clearly taken from the negative, whereas the copies I've seen all seem to be copies of copies. I will hunt my collection of Banff pictures out and scan some and post them, as long as nobody tells on me! Some are small and some are about 10 by 10. I wish I knew more about them, though I know a fair bit about the Strike Wing and the various missions undertaken. The relative in question died a long time ago, hence me getting my grubby little hands on them, so I'm not sure if he was even on all the missions depicted in the Photos. I say that, because if he was, then he had a hell of a war! Most of the pics have the date and Lat and Long marked on them, so I could probably find out who flew which mission. He was a Nav, which must have been very, very scarey. The ops they flew to Norway were among the most hazardous the RAF regularly undertook - flying a Mossie or Beaufighter across the North Sea, attacking at low level with rockets and cannon then, maybe hit, nursing it back home again. If things went wrong, survival was very unlikely, though one or two crews were picked up by trawlers or Warwicks. Sometimes though, they'd have to land in "Brighton" (code word for landing in neutral Sweden).
Ironically, I also inherited a photo album from him, which was full of photos of a cruise he went on to Norway just before the war. The final picture is of a beautiful Norwegian Fjord and underneath, he had written, " Until the next time."
