The Sitting Duck Squadron

As D-Day approached in Europe, the RAF formed a new photo reconnaissance unit to provide intelligence on enemy movements on the ground. 69 Squadron was given the task of low level photo reconnaissance, using out-dated Wellington bombers to drop flares and then fly low and slow at one thousand feet to take photos. At that level they were sitting ducks for every German soldier with a weapon. This is the story of one of those pilots, an Australian who won the Distinguished Flying Cross while flying those missions over crucial battlefields following the D-Day invasion. Jack Brown went on to a distinguished career as a civil servant in Australia, as head of all Commonwealth property in the Department/Ministry of the Interior.