jonnygb4 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

so true so true rule Britannia

churd243 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

yeah i was thinkin bout the vulcan!!

wjskyout (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Avro Lincoln (first flew 1944, but entered service too late for WW2, was used in Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising and the Malayan Emergency), and of course the famous Vulcan

churd243 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

what other postwar bomber did avro make then smartypants?

NinjofGinj (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

RIP all those souls lost in the act of keeping us free from dictatorship.the plane and the crews who flew them make me proud to be british.

Bearkiller72 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

My Oh My, what a discussion! 1st: I've seen a Lanc flying with the BOB Mem. Flight at Biggin Hill, awesome!2nd: Not as sleek as the B-17, but in my regards the better looking of them ;-)3rd: "Bomber" Harris self-declared aim was to bomb civilian targets, as to "demoralize" the enemy population, unlike USAAF, whose aim was to interrupt and destroy enemy key industrial complexes. Therefore he should be treated as a war criminal posthumously. 4th. Hey, folks, remember, the war is over!cya :-)

ColaWhiski (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I hate the war, but i like this plane very much...

FraserTheMentalist (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Bomber crews did what was asked of them - The controversy as to whether or not it was necessary is another issue. Bomber crew suffered higher losses than anybody else, they should be credited and truly ARE heroes. I believe the bombing campaign was entirely necessary, it wasnt simply a weapon of terror, strategic positions were bombed to the point of germans creating underground factories.

adrenachrome05 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Lets get arguments in context, before D-Day , bomber command was the only way of taking the war to Germany, we had to do something...anything !. Most of us were not around in those dark days. Everytime a Lanc took-off for Germany, those guys had 50-50 odds of coming home, then again the next night etc. They did'nt ask, they saw it as their duty. We have no idea today how to comprehend those odds. I'm not arguing the rights & wrongs, just commenting on those crews commitment & courage.

hwschildt (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yeah! The insignia was a svastika! LOL But this svastika was blue, not tilted and on a round white field. Our svastika was given by the Swedish Count Eric von Rosen who donated the first aircraft to the Finnish army after independence in 1917. He had painted this blue svastika on a white field as symbols of good luck.It is obvious that Hitler stole the svastika from older cultures like he stole the moustache of Charlie Chaplin. LOL