26 min
Voices of our Veterans - Ron Pell McPherson Media
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- Society & Culture
In 1943 Warrant Officer Pell was sent to England with 115 Squadron to train in Wellington bombers before taking over a Lancaster and joining the round-the-clock bombing raids on Germany and occupied Europe.
Serving with the RAAF’s Bomber Command this veteran conceded his ‘different’ war during which his planes dropped tonnes of bombs on an unseen enemy still haunts him today.
Mr Pell explained why his part in Operation Manna, dropped food to the starving Dutch population late in the war, meant so much to him.
In 1943 Warrant Officer Pell was sent to England with 115 Squadron to train in Wellington bombers before taking over a Lancaster and joining the round-the-clock bombing raids on Germany and occupied Europe.
Serving with the RAAF’s Bomber Command this veteran conceded his ‘different’ war during which his planes dropped tonnes of bombs on an unseen enemy still haunts him today.
Mr Pell explained why his part in Operation Manna, dropped food to the starving Dutch population late in the war, meant so much to him.
26 min