Page 27 - Peter Brown

This squadron notice one could well imagine to be fixed to the office door of the Gunnery
Leader at Fiskerton. This officer was responsible to the squadrons Commanding Officer for
training and discipline of the squadrons air gunners. They were kept busy between
operations, the policy of the RAF was to ensure crews were continually refreshed in their
respective trades.

In the case of air gunners they would be given lectures on the Browning machine guns they
used in the Lancasters turrets and target practice using Browning's on a tripod on the
Stations firing range situated on the Northern perimeter track next to the Northern T2
hangar. Updates of the techniques employed by the German Luftwaffe and the RAF's
response would also have been lectured on. Squadrons allowed the air gunners the use of a
shotgun firing at clay pigeons, the thinking being that this allowed air gunners to practice
deflection shooting.(Aiming at a space in front of the target thus ensuring the shot and clay
pigeon met in the same place at the same time).