Then at the end of 1941, another change occurred in my life. I was summoned to the superintendent's office, it was still Rowe, and he said, 'Lovell, you're to drop all you're doing. You can hand all your data over to someone else. We've got another job for you. You're to form a group to help Bomber Command'. And I said, 'Sorry, I don't want to do so. I'd like to put my blind firing equipment in the Beaufighters'. He said... So I went away. His summoned me agin the next day, accompanied by various other people and he said, 'Lovell, you are to drop all you are doing', and I said, 'I don't want to'. There is no alternative. Just like that.

So, I handed all my data over to someone else. Alas fortunately for me, I did so. A few months later, he was testing this equipment off the east coast and against a target aircraft which was dropping window which was meant to interfere with the radar echoes, and he was shot down by a friendly Spitfire. I'm afraid it would often happen. We were flying along with these odd noses on our aircraft and we were often approached by our own Hurricanes or Spitfires, who were uneasy at seeing something strange about an aircraft.