Memories of Service 1 - Harold Bunny Burrows

Web (Full Length) – 2015

Serving as an air force navigator during World War II, Harold 'Bunny' Burrows experienced his share of excitement. After enlisting as a 20-year-old, he began navigating on bombing runs in Sterling, Lancaster and Mosquito class bombers. In this half-hour interview he reflects on his lost compatriots, and dealing with one's mortality on high risk bombing runs over Germany and Italy. After learning that the interview crew know the German city of Leverkusen, he replies “we gave it a rough time. Sorry about that.” Burrows received the French Legion of Honour in 2015; he died on 8 September 2017.

The losses in bomber command were very very heavy indeed, but I was lucky. We got shot up badly over Berlin once but only the rear gunner got killed. The rest of us were alright. But that was the job you had to do you know, go in and hope you're alright.
– Harold Burrows