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Greetings.
Bumped into allot of people over the years and one chap stuck in my mind.
He was an RAAF aircraft engineer in Darwin and I guess it was about 67 years ago.
He said they would come in so high that by the time Boomerangs were sent, they had turned and had headed back home without a chance of catching them.
On one occasion they did get a firing solution on a bomber but the gun failed. He said it was most frustrating and went on to tell a story of why the gun failed and why the Boomerang machine guns fired off when it landed.
Turned out they were supplied with the wrong grease for the guns and it had frozen solid at altitude preventing discharge, The jolt of landing would released what was frozen and it fired off a round.
(rather odd first post in an astronomy forum but its not often I get the chance to convey what I was told)
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