Currie's feisty Australian tail-gunner, Charlie Lanham, finished his tour slightly ahead of the rest of the crew, having completed 9 sorties before joining with Currie. As Currie's total trips approached the magic mark of 30 he began to wonder if they would in fact beat the odds and survive their first tour. Their second to last mission was against their hardest target, a target crews liked to call "The Big City." It was part of Bomber Harris' four month campaign against Berlin, a campaign that Bomber Command was in the process of losing. Currie and crew survived the trip.