ON A WING AND A PRAYER

Not many people have found themselves inverted over occupied Europe in a fourengined heavy bomber and lived to tell the tale. Now in his mid-90s, Avro Lancaster pilot Russell ‘Rusty’ Waughman DFC AFC Ld’H recalls his wartime experiences with No 101 Squadron This image of a No 101 Squadron Lancaster on the Bremen raid demonstrates just one of the perils that crews faced over the target area, with bombs often falling in close proximity to those aircraft at lower altitudes