Coincidences.....

ducv2 · Sep 27, 2015

I own a Ducati, and it breaks down. What are the odds of that happening?

JenC · Sep 27, 2015

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OK, Coincidence, Fate or just plain Unlucky???

WW2……My uncle (mother’s brother) was in the RAF.
After some time being on Halifax and Wellington bombers; sometimes as Flight Engineer, sometimes as Navigator; he got seconded to the RCAF 428 (Ghost) Sqdn based at Middleton St George.

On 24th July 1944 he was Flight Eng in Lancaster X KB740 on its first operational flight for a raid on Stuttgart.
It collided with another Lancaster X (KB743……remember that number) over France and had to crash land just making it back to Suffolk on 25th July 1944.

KB 743 could not continue its operation and landed back at base.
KB 740 was written off.

Having got back to Middleton, he was with a different crew on another Lancaster X……..they took off on 18th August 1944 on a massive raid on Bremen where over 2000 tons of bombs were dropped……A bomber above them dropped its bombs which hit the tail of his Lancaster and apart from the rear gunner, they all baled out.

His Lancaster already on its way down was attacked by a German fighter and finished off.
My uncle and his crew were captured…….some of them went to Stalag Luft III (Sagan, Silesia….the Great Escape camp) and my uncle was sent to Stalag Luft 7 (Bankau, Upper Silesia), where he stayed until the Germans marched them off on the Long / Death March to SL III and followed the prisoners from there after they had already left.

Remember that number? Got it in one……The plane my uncle had to bale out from was KB743…….the one that had knocked them out of the sky earlier in July.
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Wow!!!

shadow · Sep 27, 2015

2 minutes after the rugby finished last night my mate Mervyn sent me a text
What are the chances of that ?

Exige · Sep 27, 2015

shadow said: ↑

2 minutes after the rugby finished last night my mate Mervyn sent me a text
What are the chances of that ?
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Exactly 2 minutes to the nearest tp unit (planck's time) - extremely unlikely I would say so thanks for contributing the most unlikely event yet :smile: was it inadvertent

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