My father, Ron Coverdale, was a rear gunner (Tail end Charlie) in a Lancaster bomber. He volunteered for service even though he was in a “safe” job — train driver. The following two short ...

I became the mid-upper gunner of a seven-man Lancaster bomber crew. Our pilot was First ... It reared up until it was standing on its tail, as if having received an uppercut from Popeye, and ...

In March of 1944, Royal Air Force tail gunner Nicholas Alkemade was flying his Avro Lancaster heavy bomber when he was hit by German flak. His parachute then caught fire, and there seemed to be no ...

Dusk is falling on Sunday, January 7, 1945, as seven young airmen drive to their huge and majestic Lancaster bomber ... Perspex turret protruding from the tail, he will face outwards.

and the tail section of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber nicknamed “Skippy” where Raley was positioned as a tail gunner had been severed from the rest of the aircraft in a midair collision.

Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh, who died June 4 at 87, joined the Royal Air Force to escape acute poverty and survived 55 bombing operations. By the end of World War II he had shot down eight ...

As a young tail ­gunner crammed in the back of a Lancaster bomber, Jimmy Graham must have known that, by the law of averages, his days were numbered. The life expectancy of those vulnerable RAF ...

The former tail gunner has troubling memories of the war; he grieves fellow aircrew of his Lancaster bomber who never made it back from their fatal mission. The war was liminal and indelible ...

The “kill” was “confirmed by another tail gunner who visually observed the MiG on fire and failing from the sky.” It marked the final time a U.S. bomber was credited with shooting down an ...

An aerial view of the cofferdam built for the recovery of British Lancaster bomber ED603 [Courtesy ... and Flying Officer Gordon R. Sugar (air gunner) washed up on shore. Three crewmembers ...

Toronto's historic Avro Lancaster bomber may soon be heading to a new ... Her uncle was killed while serving as a Lancaster tail gunner during the Second World War. Victory Aircraft in Malton ...

On a cool fall day, David Rohrer wriggles into the cockpit of one of the last two of 7,377 Lancaster World War ... Pat Brophy, the tail gunner, was stuck in the turret at the rear.