Introduction On the night of 25th - 26th February 1944, the Lancaster LM593, took off from RAF Mepal in Cambridgeshire, England, ...
Introduction On the night of 25th - 26th February 1944, the Lancaster LM593, took off from RAF Mepal in Cambridgeshire, England, ...
Introduction The Runnymede Memorial at Englefield Green – overlooking the River Thames – commemorates more than 20.000 Commonwealth airmen who have ...
Introduction The Runnymede Memorial at Englefield Green – overlooking the River Thames – commemorates by name more than 20.000 Commonwealth airmen ...
Introduction RAF Bomber Command aircrews suffered a very high casualty rate. More than 57,000 of the 125,000 airmen who flew with ...
Origins The story of [bioid]67079,Edward Cornelius Martin Swart[/bioid] began on October 9, 1920 in the village Wath upon Dearne, South Yorkshire, ...
Introduction The Dutch Frisian Islands are the most northern part of The Netherlands. During the war more than 350 Commonwealth killed ...
Preface Seventy years ago I came in contact with two crew members of the shot-down American Boeing Fortress (number 43-37913): John ...
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Introduction In the early morning of 30 July 1942 the inhabitants of the Belgian villages of Olmen and Balen were woken ...
Introduction The Runnymede Memorial at Englefield Green – overlooking the River Thames – commemorates by name more than 20.000 Commonwealth airmen ...
Introduction The average age of the 125.000 volunteers who flew the aircraft of Bomber Command during the Second World War was ...
Introduction American Gerald Reyburn, nicknamed 'Jerry' by the other members of his crew, left his hometown Louisville aged 18 when he ...
Introduction The Roman Catholic churchyard at the Kloosterweg in Brielle provides a place for a war grave of the Commonwealth. ...
Introduction At exactly midnight on 25 to 26 March 1942, engine humming is heard for the umpteenth time by the crew ...
