"If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down"......
Checking my records (Bomber Command Losses volume 4 1943 - Bill Chorley) Stirling 111 BK716 'J' No.218 Squadron failed to return from operations to Berlin 29/30 March 1943. All the crew of five British and two Canadians were lost without trace. This is the missing Stirling, thought to have been lost in the North Sea that has been discovered in the lake in the Netherlands. Total RAF Bomber Command losses on this night were 21 aircraft. Three Stirlings which included BK702, also from No.218 failed to return. Again five Britains and two Canadians were lost. The inferior Stirling was still being used on distant targets like Berlin at this stage of the bomber offensive, despite suffering heavy losses. A stark reminder to us all of the horrendous cost payed by our airmen. Never forget.
Vickers Wellington Mk1c. OJ-F P2517 'F for Freddie' of No.149 Squadron, star of 'Target for Tonight' directed by Harry Watt released in July 1941.
Freddy prepares for an air test prior to departure from Ford on ops with No.149 Squadron for a daring daylight attack on Marshalling Yards in Caen France 31\1|21. ATAG Operation Milk Run. Target destroyed. Six Wellingtons, One Blenheim together with
their Spitfire escort returned safely. One Wellington crashed on landing at Ford.
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