Happy to know where it is and I'll try to see it also, if I get up that way. I had an older brother who spent 35 missions in one as a navigator. I did say "35." Although the Belle was pulled back to the states as the first heavy bomber to successfully complete a 25 mission tour of duty, the ** kept moving the goalposts in late '43 and early '44, building up to the invasion. My brother got caught up in that cycle. He had only a 25% chance of surviving the 25 missions. IDK what the odds were on 35. I remember his saying his wing suffered 300% casualties over the war. I've had people question how that's possible. The answer is that replacements of replacements kept getting wounded and killed. Also, some positions, tail and turret gunners, for example had much higher rates of casualties, for several reasons. His plane lost some of them. One general practice, according to my brother, was "midnight requisition" of flak jackets. The interior crew, excluding the pilot and co-pilot, of course, would then line their compartments with flak jackets. Probably added materially to the weight...
