A Lancaster Over Docklands
Whilst waiting for the trip over the Emirates Air-Line, I saw the Lancaster flying up the River to the opening of the Bomber Command Memorial.
A Lancaster Over Docklands
It made an impressive sight as it passed the cable-car.
In Oz . . . when I was a teenager I experienced a low flyover {500 ft] by a flight of Lincoln Bombers very impressive . . .
It is about time, we recognised Bomber Command & the Brave Men, who night after night . . . carried a message . . . that Freedom would not Surrendered.
We must agree with Churchill . . . this was their finest hour . . . the Few who Saved the UK, then the many of Bomber Command, who took up the Challenge & carried the Fight for Freedom to the enemy.
When we look, at Europe today, how proud those young men now in the twilght of the life . . . can see a Memorial, to show appreciation of their devotion to duty.
Comment by Steam Lover | June 29, 2012 |
Since I read the proper history of the Mosquito,, I have come to believe that using Lancasters,Fortresses and Liberators to destroy Germany was wrong. Before D-Day, they swapped to strategic targets and did much more damage to the German war machine. Remember between us all, the Allies lost 250,000 men bombing Germany. if we’d used Mosquitos, which carried the same bombload as a Fortress and could bomb Berlin twice in a night, we’d have shortened the war. It was all about vindictiveness. i’ve met Germans, who survived the fire-bombing and their attitude was the same as those in London in the Blitz. It didn’t work.
As to the Lincoln, I think the Aussies were the last to retire their big piston engined bombers, although we still had Shackletons for maritime patrol into the 1960s.
Comment by AnonW | June 29, 2012 |