Please note this story is written by Dennis Mason and I am submitting it on his behalf. On the night of 1st/2nd July 1941 I was flying as Front Gunner in a Wellington Bomber returning from a raid on ...

I was born and raised in Bristol and lived there during the war. I remember a November raid in 1940 or 1941 that was when we had the first big blitz in Bristol. We had an Anderson air raid shelter in ...

This was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, with the BAE Systems info page going so far as to call the Lancaster “The most iconic heavy bomber of World War II.” Making its maiden ...

The Bristol Blenheim began as the world’s fastest civilian aircraft—but war changed everything. Converted into a light bomber, the Blenheim flew into heavy Luftwaffe resistance during the Battle of ...