My uncle was a tail-end Charlie. His name was Charles, coincidentally

He made it through but every tour they served was a statistical certainty of death (your chance of surviving any one raid was 95%, which sounds great, but put differently it means you had a one in twenty chance of being killed, and a tour was twenty raids so....). He served several tours though was never precise about how many.

Posted By: Old Man on July 22nd 2018 at 18:43:55

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WW2? (General Chat) - Tombs, Jul 22, 14:10:47
- My uncle was a tail-end Charlie. His name was Charles, coincidentally (General Chat) - Old Man, Jul 22, 18:43:55
- My next door neighbour (from childhood) was a "tail-end Charlie". Lucky to survive. (n/m) (General Chat) - derbyshire canary, Jul 22, 17:38:30
- My great uncle was shot down in one. (General Chat) - avenging canary, Jul 22, 16:37:47
  - incredibly brave (General Chat) - Tombs, Jul 22, 17:15:11
    - I was talking to my brother about this (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Jul 22, 17:29:53
      - probably (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Jul 22, 17:45:01
      - and that's the kicker (General Chat) - Tombs, Jul 22, 17:38:43
        
        The kicker is racist scum generally (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Jul 22, 17:47:17
    - it's amazing that many returned at all really (General Chat) - CWC, Jul 22, 17:28:31
      - the ripples out as well (General Chat) - Tombs, Jul 22, 17:31:57
- My uncle was a mid upper gunner on a Lanc (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Jul 22, 15:00:53
  - so sad (General Chat) - Tombs, Jul 22, 16:18:12
  - My uncles plane (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Jul 22, 15:44:47
  - my grandpops was right at the back, he was only 1 of 2 survivors after being shot down (General Chat) - pants, Jul 22, 15:35:10

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