🌺 “Six operations together — a Lancaster crew lost over Belgium” No. 57 Squadron RAF 🌺 On the night of 3 November 1943, a Lancaster bomber of No. 57 Squadron RAF failed to return from operations. The aircraft was Lancaster W4822, flying from RAF East Kirkby on a major bombing raid against Düsseldorf — one of the most heavily defended targets in Germany. Hundreds of bombers took part, and losses were heavy, particularly on the return journey, as Luftwaffe night fighters hunted the bomber stream

AVRO LANCASTER B.Mk.1 'R5868' was built by Metropolitan-Vickers at its Mosley Road works, Manchester and delivered to No. 83 Squadron, RAF Scampton, Lincs, June 42. Filmed at RAF Museum London, England. | World War II Aircraft

Avro Lancaster B Mk I R5868 ‘S-Sugar’ at The Royal Air Force Museum London. #ww2 #wwii #avro #lancaster #warbirds | Daniel J Wheatcroft

Avro Lancaster R5868 ‘PO-S’ - better known as ‘S Sugar’ - is one of only 35 aircraft of the type to complete 100 missions #ww2history #ww2 #wwii #wwiihistory #bombercommand #royalairforce The Royal Air Force Museum London | Daniel J Wheatcroft

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum-Mynarski Memorial Lancaster at EAA - The Spirit of Aviation AirVenture 2024 Oshkosh The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario has an Avro Lancaster bomber called the Mynarski Memorial Lancaster, also known as VeRA. The museum purchased the aircraft in 1977 for around $10,000 and a team of volunteers spent 11 years restoring it before it took flight again in 1988. The Lancaster is one of only two airworthy Lancasters in the world and the museum o