Comment by physicsguy
1 year ago
Putting people in bomb bay was relatively common!
My grandfather did his national service with the RAF driving lorries across Palestine/Egypt/Iraq/Transjordan in 1945 to 1947 and flew over to Egypt in a bomb bay with all the other recruits.
My grandfather was conscripted into the German armed forces as an engineer during WW2 and ended up in the belly of bomber planes, manually detaching bombs while hoisted above the open hatch. He refused to set foot on another plane for the rest of his life.