May 31st 1945 and PA474 is one of 500 Lancaster's to be built by Vickers Armstrong at their Chester factory. Of the 500 contracted, only 235 were to be produced. All images shown are mine taken at various locations.
Wednesday 31 May 2023
Thursday 4 August 2022
Lancaster: Above and Beyond documentary review
Now I'm a big fan of the Avro Lancaster, due to a Family connection, and I received this DVD for my 51st Birthday back in June, and just recently re-watched it. Now if you are looking for a technical presentation on the Lancaster bomber this isn't it. This presentation is about the courageous crews who took the Lancaster into harms way night after night, and the crews also discuss the morality of what they did, and why they did it, and how they were forgotten at War's end by those in Government. So again if you're interested in the crews of this mighty aircraft, then this Documentary is for you!
Saturday 29 May 2021
Boeing B-17G "Nine-O-Nine"
"Nine-O-Nine" was a Boeing B-17G-30-BO Fortress. (The 30-BO means she was a Block 30 and Boeing built) She was delivered to the 323rd Bomb Squadron of the 91st Bomb Group "The Ragged Irregulars" at Bassingbourn on February 24, 1944. Her first raid was to Augsburg on February 25, 1944, she did 18 raids on Berlin "The Big City". And flew a total of 1,129 hours and dropped 562,000 pounds of bombs. She had 21 engine changes, four wing panel changes (presumably due to Flak damage?) 15 main gas tank changes, and 18 Tokyo tank changes, and completed a total of 140 missions. She returned to the states on June 8, 1945 and then went to the RFC facility at Kingman, Arizona on December 7, 1945 where she was eventually scrapped.
Monday 1 July 2019
Medway Armed Forces Day June 29, 2019
Saturday saw the annual Armed Forces for Medway. I decided to pop along for the day, there wasn't a lot of military vehicles at the show compared to last year, which was the main reason I went.
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