What is the worst job in the world?

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classic33

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I would say rear gunner in a Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber was up there.
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Widnes
I would say rear gunner in a Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber was up there.

My Dad was an armourer in WW2 - working on bombers

when the plane came back from a mission the first thing was to get all the living crew off

after that everyone stayed away from the plane until the armourers had been on and removed anything that might go bang

In other words any dead crew were still on board

apparently sometime the rear gunners pretty much had to be removed with a hosepipe

being first on to see and have to sort that out seemed a bad part of the job
 

captain nemo1701

Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
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Bristol
I feel sorry for those guys at roadworks with the stop/go boards....must be phenomenally dull.
 
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Yellow Fang

Yellow Fang

Squire
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Bury St Edmunds
My Dad was an armourer in WW2 - working on bombers

when the plane came back from a mission the first thing was to get all the living crew off

after that everyone stayed away from the plane until the armourers had been on and removed anything that might go bang

In other words any dead crew were still on board

apparently sometime the rear gunners pretty much had to be removed with a hosepipe

being first on to see and have to sort that out seemed a bad part of the job

The thing about Stukas was that they were daytime bombers. The gunner had one poxy gun. If he saw a flight of hurricanes, well I suppose he could alert the pilot, who might fly into cloud, or fly into a valley, but if not they had had it. Then he also had to sit back when the pilot starts his dive bomb with the Jericho trumpets blaring.
 
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