TODAY at 11am, people gathered at the feet of a statue of a supersize Canadian airman will fall silent to remember his Victoria ...

Amid this inferno, 20-year-old Utah native Donald William Pullan – assigned to the 911th Air Engineering Squadron – arrived four days after D-Day, jumping into waist-deep water, his boots sinking into ...

P/O Andrew Mynarski, was awarded the Victoria Cross after June 13, 1944, when his Lancaster was shot down in flames, by a German night fighter. As the bomber fell, he attempted to free the tail gunner ...

The British-born newspaper-owner whose takeover of The Daily Telegraph appears to have been thwarted by a £500m deal with RedBird Capital Partners has called on the title's stakeholders to rally ...

Ivor Foster, now 99 years old, was a mid-upper gunner in a Lancaster bomber and served in the tail end of WW2 with the RAF. Mr Foster was invited to Plymstock Bowling Club – where he was ...

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 ...

At the talk to be held January 8, at 7 p.m. at the Glengarry Sports Palace, Jack Hanna will put you inside the Lancaster bomber that was shot up by flak while on a raid over Dortmund, Germany. The ...

Vivid memories of the moment a Lancaster bomber ... could not get the bomber to fly above 1,000ft and called for help. The base told them to ditch the bombs in the sea at 5,000ft, otherwise the ...

who tried to rescue tail gunner Pat Brophy after their bomber was shot and on fire. Brophy was wedged in his turret by fighter damage to the Lancaster. Mynarski couldn’t get Brophy out despite trying ...

The bulk of U.S. bomber production next year will probably ... 50-caliber Browning machine guns in nose, tail, top and belly turrets. When Luftwaffe pilots first met the Fortresses, they had ...

"The wartime crew of a Lancaster Bomber was generally seven. That would be a pilot, a flight engineer, a bomb aimer and gunner who did both jobs up front, a navigator, a wireless operator, a mid-upper ...

From having “a happy husband”, to good friends and simply embracing life – and love – five remarkable centenarians share their tips for a long life at a joint birthday celebration.