Take off in a Boston, make a low pass in a Bisley and then bomb in a Wellington – but one without geodetic construction, is suspiciously spacious and admirably quiet! A good trick if you can do it!

A heavy bomber of the period had little need for fast acting bomb doors. Not sure why the Mitchell had.

The trend for the mainstream press to publish ever more ‘eye catching’ headlines (often with hardly a mention in the text that follows) shows no signs of abating. The internet and TV have driven them to this extreme – but it is the wrong reaction and will hasten their demise.

You stupid boy, Pike!

World War Shackleton……….?????????

The background has been too enthusiastically altered by the censors unfortunately.

The Daily Fail is not unique among the dead tree press. In my day papers would take on suitable school leavers as cub reporters. These days journalists are likely to have been on ‘Media Studies’ at some box-ticking university.

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