Dambusters deserve proper medals not a brass clasp, says wartime bomber hero
There is even a specially commissioned Bomber Command Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, opened by the Queen, to commemorate the 55,573 Allied air men who died during WW2. Arctic convoy veterans have...
View ArticleTwo Lancaster bomber planes fly together for first time in 50 years
Flying in the skies above RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, plane enthusiasts were treated on Wednesday to a display not seen since the filming of The Dambusters in the 1950s. Two Lancaster bombers flew...
View ArticleDresden bomber Harry Irons remembers raid 70 years on
Warrant Officer Harry Irons, DFC, joined the RAF in 1940 at the age of 16 as a rear gunner, flying in Lancasters with No. 9 Squadron. On the night of February 13th 1945, two waves of RAF bombers,...
View ArticleLast surviving Dambusters pilot sells gallantry medals for upkeep of Bomber...
The 95-year-old visited the monument in London’s Green Park in 2013 and said he was inspired to make the sacrifice “out of comradeship” to his fellow servicemen who did not made it back. Sq Ldr Munro...
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