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Lancasters were built to accomplish their specific purpose; crew comfort and security was clearly a secondary consideration. Generally flying under the cover of darkness, the Lancaster had virtually no defensive armour. The front, mid-upper, and rear gun turrets were hydraulically powered and carried a total of eight .303 calibre machine guns for defence against enemy aircraft. 
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RT @IntotheWindDoc: Trailer for New Zealand at War Memories of Bomber Command - a Film for MOTAT in Auckland: http://t.co/x4SIHUNW - full film on ITW DVD...
's comment November 20, 2011 3:31 AM
Greetings from France
Lancaster ND586 crash identified in my village (see WEB) Research documents, photos of the crew, bombing of April 10, 1944, raid Aulnoye friendships bernard 
Peter John Baskerville's comment,
November 20, 2011 4:45 AM
Greetings Bernard. Thank you for the information. Peter
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Description: Aerial photograph of bombing raid over Wangerooge in the North Sea. Date: World War Two Our Catalogue Reference: AIR 14/3647 This image is from the collections of The National Archives.
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More than 60 years after the end of the Second World War, writes Martin Gilbert, there is a growing call for a special campaign medal for the brave men and women who served in Bomber Command.
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Man who had one of the most dangerous jobs in the whole war - and lived to ...Leicester MercuryFor 67 years ago, Steve's father, Robert, was a 19-year-old tailgunner in a Lancaster bomber over Nazi Germany.
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Busselton World War II bomber reflectsBusselton Dunsborough MailDespite several more encounters during his tour of operations, Frank was one of the lucky ones from Bomber Command who survived the war.
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Binbrook was the home of 460 Squadron from 1943 until the end of the war. It was here that my crew and I were to complete the...
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They were known as the "Bomber Boys". Barely out of their teens, they flew out of British air bases during the Second World War, knowing that their life expectancy was little more than two weeks. Ron Leverington, 91, is one of the few remaining.
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Original pictures, video and Microsoft Flight Simulator segments were compiled to remember and honor the crews of the Lancaster bomber aircraft. This period of time from 1942-1945 shaped history and the way we live.
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Now that work has started on construction of the Bomber Command Memorial, the Association have asked me to keep all our members, donors, supporters and anyone else interested in the Memorial up-to-date on progress. I am responsible for communications about the Memorial on behalf of the Bomber Command Association; I recently left the RAF after 19 years and I feel honoured to be involved with such an important and significant project.
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Harry Irons still remembers the sheer terror of his first mission for RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War like it was yesterday. ‘A bomber crew didn’t have much chance of survival, and it took my first sortie to Düsseldorf in September 1942 to understand why,’ recalls Harry, 87, of Essex. ‘With so many planes ducking and diving in the pitch black among the smoke and explosions, it was utterly terrifying. My job was to sit in the rear gun turret firing at the German fighter planes. It shocked the life out of me.
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Photo of unidentified Lancaster Bomber No.35 Sqdn and AirCrew, England, World War 2 photos ... The Nose art shows Kangaroos instead of bombs so perhaps the Lancaster was an RAAF plane or had an Australian Pilot.
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Airplane-Pictures.net: Avro 683 Lancaster B.
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Your remembrance tributes. He was a navigator in a Lancaster Bomber and was shot down over Germany in October 1944. One day I hope to visit his grave, which lies in one of the war cemeteries in Germany.
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Free-trips promise comes at right time for bomber veteransNew Zealand HeraldBomber Command Association members (back, from left) Wally Halliwell, Des Hall, Doug Tayler and Des Andrewes and (front, from left) Roy Montrowe, Frank Prebble, and...
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From 1939 until the success of D-Day on June the 6th 1944 the only real tactic the British had to hand that could hurt the German enemy in Europe was Bomber Command. Early results showed that the safest and most effective tactic for the ...
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October 22, 2014 1:56 PM
The first part of this page gives some interesting info on what it was like to be a part of a bomber crew of the RAF. However, I chose this source more for the poem below that. Noel Coward was born in 1899 and he lived in Britain throughout both World Wars. He is mainly known for his career as a Playright, Director, Actor, and composer. This poem is related to the course because it gives you an idea of what it was like to be on the ground while bombers were above. The wings full of weapons discussed in this poem remind me of Greer's, A Modern Deadaulus. Specifically after they are done bombing the castle and O'Halloran walks through the carnage he created.
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18th February 1943: RAF Lancaster crews plan a bombing raid over Germany (RT @TheWarYears: You can listen to Len Deighton's Bomber, about the last mission of Lancaster bomber "O" Orange on BBC Radio 4Extra
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Eastbourne TodayFeature: Lancaster pilot Jack was 'just doing his job'Eastbourne Today“People might argue differently, but in my mind, it was the Lancaster which won the war.
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1942. During World War II the Lancaster was the most successful bomber used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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Beautiful sight of an RAF Lancaster Bomber taking off from Guernsey on the way to a display in Jersey. Listen to those old Merlin engines!
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FLIGHT OF YOUR LIFE TO SALUTE BOMBER HEROES- A ONCE-in-a-lifetime flight aboard a majestic Second World War aircraft is the star lot at a glittering auction to raise money for the Bomber Command Memorial Fund.
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During World War II the Lancaster was the most successful bomber used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force.The Lanc had speed, ceiling, and lifting power that no other aircraft of the day could match. Weighing 36,900 pounds empty, the Lancaster was capable of taking off with an additional 33,100 pounds of fuel and bombs; in other words it could almost carry its own weight again. The Lancaster carried 64% of the tonnage dropped by the RAF and RCAF during the war. The "Grand Slam", a 22,000 pound special purpose bomb designed to penetrate concrete and explode below the surface to create an earthquake effect, could only be delivered by the Lancaster and the Lancaster was thus chosen for special operations such as the "Dambusters" raid and the attack which sunk the German Battleship Tirpitz.
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Thinking of dad: As memories spring to mind from autumn poppies, a son wonders. For he was young, just a young Saskatchewan farm boy when he sat atop the bomb bay of a Lancaster bomber, and waited for the signal to unload on the tiny...
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LAST OF THE DAMBUSTERS THE stillness of the moonlit night in May 1943 was broken by the drone of the Lancaster bomber's engines. Racing along the German valley at more than 250mph the sevenman crew spotted their target: Sorpe Dam.
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Into the Wind is Steven Hatton’s first feature length documentary, capturing the life and wartime experiences of former Bomber Command veterans from the Second World War. As well as a document of unique historical value and significance, Into the Wind is a record of deeply personal stories, tales of friendships gained and lost, the perpetual possibility and proximity of death, the importance of love and family, the shared passion for flying and the moral implications of warfare. The documentary features interviews with former aircrew originating from Poland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom, all of whom share the weight and responsibility of having helped change the course of history.
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