Reunion of Giants

[gray_marian]

This YouTube is a trailer for a documentary of the reunion of the last 2 Lancaster bombers still flying

It happened in 2014 when the Canadian Warplane Museum’s Lancaster flew to England to meet the only other Lancaster still flying.


[Full screen a must!] 3 minutes to watch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ol2rem6d3g&sns=fb

[Doc Vernon]

Good to watch that Marian
My dear late Father was a rear Gunner in them during the War,not the best place to be he used to tell us!
Got shot down at one stage and as he bailed out he was caught on the rear small wing,causing horrific injuries,he received over 150 stiches around his waistline,but was so lucky to survive!
He actually told us that he never remembered a thing ,all he knew was he woke up in Hospital!

He carried that very thick and enormous Scar ,I will never forget it!
God Bless you Dad!
Thanks for that Video Marian!

[happy daze john in oz]

A tribute to the aircraft and the men who flew them. Men who went to war in then hope that their efforts would make the difference. Thank good ness we had such men.

[Frederick Lacey]

Hi Marian, lovely sight, to see them together, often see the memorial flight (Lancaster, Spitfire, Hurricane.) at local air shows
around Essex, used to see the Lancs on their way to Germany during the war, but often as not they were night flights so didn't
see them but certainly heard them, also played truant as a youngster and watched the Spits taking off and landing at Fairlop Aerodrome.
2 or 3 of us also watched the gunners on the guns by Fairlop Station. The Central Line wasn't used during the war as the tunnel from
Newbury Park to Wanstead was used as a factory for Plessey's. Fred.




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[Dennis McGuckin]

This YouTube is a trailer for a documentary of the reunion of the last 2 Lancaster bombers still flying

It happened in 2014 when the Canadian Warplane Museum’s Lancaster flew to England to meet the only other Lancaster still flying.


[Full screen a must!] 3 minutes to watch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ol2rem6d3g&sns=fb

Thanks Marian, sent it to my Canadian ex air force friends.

[Frederick Lacey]

Marian, you say 3 minutes, I don't know if you realise but if you click on to the following arrows it goes on for about 30 mins,
there's the 2 Lancaster's flying with a Spitfire and Hurricane, also both of the Lancaster's on either side of a Vulcan Bomber,
which is also flying with the Red Arrows, then the Vulcan doing a display of its own, plenty of nostalgia......Fred.