beginning of the end for another lovely old piece of our aviation heritage. Been a bad few weeks really… 🙁

You seem quite willing to believe that I exist… 😀 You can’t see, hear, or touch me, but you can see my fingerprints all over this thread…

I’m not sure God’s a member of this forum, well I’ve not seen any postings by him anyway…

A fine tribute to Canada’s Bomber Boys. Puts the lack of a suitable memorial over here to shame…

Hence why I don’t vote!

-sits and waits for ‘our forefathers didn’t fight for you to not vote’ comments that won’t change anything-

Fair play.

Anyway they fought so you could have the freedom to decide whether or not to vote 😀

Does in your fridge still look like that Al? 😉

Where’s Cromwell when we need him? Dissolve the whole rotten, self-serving lot and start again fresh. That way there might actually be someone worth voting for.

Love that Nimrod, Victor, Phantom, Bucc formation photo 🙂

…a Lancaster pilot who won the VC and lived to talk about it (IIRC his last name was Reed)….

Would that be Bill Reid VC, if memory serves correctly?

I suspect if we’d persisted with daylight ops. losses would have been even higher than the night-time losses sustained due to the feeble defensive armament of BC aircraft, something that was never really addressed all the way through the war. No way could a daylight raid of Lancs and Halifaxes not suffer crippling losses if they were to raid when the Luftwaffe was at the height of its powers. The 109’s and 190’s would, I feel, have shredded them.
However the figures are sliced and diced, a lot of very brave chaps we owe a massive debt to were killed and have never been properly recognised.