A Mississippi Tail-Gunner... Crew 12 

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P/O Harold Popplestone, Sgt. Weeks, P/O Bob Baldy, P/O Don Tucker.

P/O Bob Baldy with Perks Crew 12, he is the happiest man in all the R.C.A.F. Bomber Group after a recent heavy raid on the target of Kassel , Germany was Sgt. “Tiny” Weeks, English tail gunner of the Bluenose Squadron who shot down a German nightfighter. While waiting to tell interrogation officers about it, Sgt. Weeks is shown demonstrating to fellow members of the crew just how it was done.

They are P/O Harold Popplestone, bomb-aimer, Pilot Mount, Man; Sgt. Weeks; P/O Bob Baldy, mid-upper gunner, Kosciusko, Mississippi, U.S.A.; and P/O Don Tucker, navigator, former Toronto newspaperman whose home is at Pt. Credit, Ont. It was Sgt. Weeks’ 29th trip and his crewmates are all veterans of the squadron skippered by W/C C.E. Harris of Annapolis Royal , N.S.

12 Oct. 1943 - Courtesy CFJIC - PL 19806