steveindenmark
Legendary Member
Restoring a Lancaster Bomber
.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Lancaster-bomber-like-giant-AIRFIX-model.html
.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Lancaster-bomber-like-giant-AIRFIX-model.html
yes - I have seen some statements from some folks (born postwar) from some folks born in countries that would have been under these things that say the crews were cowards, as if you just flew off and dropped stuff with impunity. In truth of course 50 per cent didn't make it to the war's end. I find it incredible that folk volunteered for this.Amazing story and an amazing aeroplane. If we hadn’t of had it the war would have gone on for many more years. Full respect to the lads that flew them knowing their chances of survival were slim.
My childhood best mate's Dad was a rear gunner on Lancs. He did 3 tours.For anyone wondering, a Lancaster tour was thirty ops. My grandfather flew twenty eight, mostly in J for Johnnie Walker, before the war ended.
This was also the central theme in Catch 22.Another memory from the RAF museum though this involved american crews.
There's a letter or something from a US airman telling folks that their tour of duty (number of flights before being relieved) had gone up. It went up to a figure beyond the number of missions you were likely to on AVERAGE survive. If you were lucky, Which meant that from now on crews felt like they were on death's row. No coming back to this world.