Why would an RAF pilot become a USAAC co-pilot?

Subject: Why would an RAF pilot become a USAAC co-pilot?
From: "Ed Majden"
Date: 2/8/04 2:25 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: 5HyVb.440053$X%5.314436@pd7tw2no


"Keith Willshaw"
IRC it was only the Lancaster and Halifax that used just one pilot. The
RAF
looked at aircraft losses and came to the conclusion that unlike
the USAAF aircraft typically came back with all their crew or didnt
return at all.

Keith:
A lot of responsability for a young kid not that long out of flight
school, eh!
Most of them were young fellows.
Ed




I was 19.


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