Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. Yes, many Germans had a great sense of humor. From "Make Another Signal", during an arctic convoy a German plane was circling around the convoy just out of AA range. The convoy commander, fed up with this, signalled the Luftwaffe pilot saying, "For goodness sakes, go the other way. You're making me dizzy!", whereupon the German pilot reversed course and did just that.
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  2. Interesting fact: the Bristol Blenheim MK4 didn't have a mechanism to open the bomb bay doors. Instead, they were held shut by parachute elastic. So, when the bomb release was pushed, the bomb landed on the bomb bay doors, the doors would open and the bomb drop out. The elastic would then snap the doors shut.
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