Topic: Lancaster

[demon78]

VRA 25 years and still flying ain't she beautiful, long may she roar through the sky!




Bill the demon.

[Bob Wessner]

Great achievement, great to see aren't they? We in Ann Arbor are often treated to low flyovers of a B-17. The Yankee Air Museum is just a few miles east of us. A very distinctive sound to those old engines. I'll have try and snag a pic one day.

[70CB750]

B-17 flies over us every so often, sounds very menacing, just could not imagine sky full of them.

[demon78]

As I've mentioned before my squadron flew Lanc's and when we converted to P2V7's they had a flypast of the Lanc's all 12 got off the ground, formed up and did a flypast at a 1000 feet the sound was amazing the day was damp and cloudy and you could imagine another 1000 bomber raid on the Ruhr, made the hair raise up on your neck, sometimes I miss my youth, which I'm sure was wasted on me.
Bill the demon.

[strynboen]

here are a film abaut the vay the lanc vas used..and the men who flew it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujLVIlESNGE

[Lenny55]

Very nice!  On a side note, I drove through Wiarton last Thursday on my way home from Elsinore.  Nice area!

[RAFster122s]

Seen the CWM Lancaster fly and was given the $0.01 tour outside it while it was out on the tarmac. Monster sized plane with over 6 feet beneath the engine nacelle. It was a big bomber, like the B29.
Those four Merlins were musical as well.

[demon78]

RAFster They are! They are! Much nicer than a big radial.
Bill the demon.
 

[demon78]

Lenny, it's no bad as they say.
Bill the demon.

[Stixxy]

My grandfather was a navigator on a Lanc in WW2. Sadly he died a few years before I was born so the few stories I have are second hand, but still good stories.

[1080]

My Uncle was shot down over Germany in a Lancaster.
Here is the last entry from his Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book.

[Killer Canary]

Do you know where your uncle was going on his last op?

[1080]

I had to look for the info I had.
By the way, my Uncle Charles was borne in Courval, Saskatchewan in 1916.

Particulars of Service.

Appointed Pilot Officer, May 21, 1944.
Killed May 23, 1944 while taking part in flying operations over Dortmund, Germany.

[1080]

From a photo copied bookpage that my Dad had, says "22/23 May 1944
DORTMUND
 361 Lancasters and 14 Mosquitoes of 1,3,6 and 8 Groups carried out the first large raid on this target for a year. 18 Lancasters were lost..."

My Uncle received Service Awards: 1939-45 Star Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp and War Medal 1939-45. Medals forward to my dad.
 He was laid to rest at War Cemetery at Dortmund Germany and later re-interred in the Reichswald Forest British Military Cemetery ( 3 miles southwest of Cleve, Germany. I had the Grave #, Row & Plot info.
I think of him every Nov 11th.

[72 yellow]

I remember seeing a Lancaster in Jackson Park, Windsor Ontario several years ago.  It was mounted on a concrete pedestal.