Interesting story of reconciliation. I hadn’t realised A bomb survivors were sent to USA for treatment and that Lewis (who says he was acting for the crew) presented money for the medical scheme. I’ve read several times that no crew member ever said “my God, what have we done?” . Clearly one crew member did indeed say that. Loved the 1950’s adverts for nail polish and shampoo!
I got to see the Enola Gay at Washington Dulles just last month. An aircraft I’ve always wanted to see. And coincidentally reading Navigator, Dutch Van Kirk’s book right now.

Interestingly today’s Daly Telegraph says that the message was to Bomber Command based on the code XO2 at the top. Great to know what the rest says.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9649173/Quest-to-crack-secrets-of-lost-D-Day-pigeon.html

Here is the Daily Mail tribute to the ‘Few’…….with Meteors.
You couldn’t make it up could you….damned disgrace by the BBC & the Daily Mail.
Who do they employ nowadays..day release prisoners ?

They fought the most important battle this country ever faced and their victory saved Britain from the tyranny of Nazi Germany.
The heroes of the Battle of Britain repelled Hitler’s Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940, although only around 70 of them are still alive.
At the time were in their late teens or early 20s when they took to the skies in Spitfires and Hurricanes from July to October 1940. Others flew in Blenheims, Beaufighters and Defiants, becoming the ‘aces’ of the Battle, shooting down plane after plane.
During the Battle, Sir Winston Churchill said: ‘The gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire, and indeed throughout the world, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion.

‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’

When it was over, 544 RAF pilots and aircrew were dead and had made the ultimate sacrifice to keep generations of Britons safe

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221792/Oldest-surviving-pilot-fight-Battle-Britain-Spitfire-shot-dies-aged-99.html#ixzz2A8BHhD16
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Calm down, they have changed the picture and there is a Spitfire now. At least his passing is not going unremarked by the media which was a complaint earlier on in this thread.

Today’s DT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/9626438/Flight-Lieutenant-William-Walker.html

A quick Google and this story seems to come up every couple of years. R5868 only appeared on the gate in 1960. The road was realigned in 1955 when the runway was lengthened, why more work on the road 3 years later and why take the Grand Slam all the way to Shoeburyness? Grand Slam first used in 1945, so why was ” explosive filling” put in 1944? To damage the Cathedral sounds a bit suspect, even though Grand Slam is large bomb, it’s a distance away.

The gate guardian then would have of course have been Lancaster R5868, S-Sugar. Now at Hendon. Shame if that had gone up (as well as a large part of Lincoln).

Even though Armstrong was the mission commander, Michael Collins was the Command Module (Columbia) pilot for Apollo 11, which of course meant he couldn’t go to the moon with Neil & Buzz on the Lunar Module, !

And of course the BBC should have made this point clear. Poor old Michael Collins. Always felt more sorry for him than than the second man on the moon!

I thought this was joke, but clearly not.

BBC News website refer to “Michael Collins, a pilot on the Apollo 11 Moon mission” (so how many where there???)