One of my outstanding memories from that time is that contrary to many books of today Bert Harris did a tour of stations and 
I remember as many aircrew as possible being scrummed into the Binbrook dining hall. He emphasised the value of debriefing 
reports. 

His words were:
“We at command are like a bunch of eunuchs, we know what it’s all about but cannot do it ourselves”. He told us to respect 
the daylight raids of the Americans in spite of their small bomb loads, if they could shoot down as many German fighters 
as possible by day it made our job a little easier by night. He soothed the worries of the air gunners who wanted 0.5 guns. 
He simply said that at aiming visibility range 4 x 0.303 were more effective than 2 x 0.5. It was certainly a stirring occasion.