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 Teniente) March 11, 2017

This film is a tribute to the Avro Lancaster as "the most powerful and efficient bomber in the world, and one of the most important war-winning weapons in the UN" made in 1942.

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The Lancaster Mk III heavy bomber ED450 (EA-G) crashed on the breakwater in Plymouth Sound on 13th February 1943. ED 450 was from 49 Squadron based at Fiskerton in Lincolnshire and had just returned from a raid on the U-boat pens at Lorient in France. All the crew were killed. the remains of the...read more

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 Teniente) May 04, 2016

The UK trailer for his first indie feature film. Took him 5 years to finish this film. Made with $35000 and many hours rendering on his computer at home. No fancy studios or big crews. This is as indie as it gets. He envisioned this film as a short film, but he couldn't stop writing, and in the...read more

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Operation Chastise was a daring attack on German dams carried out on May 16-17, 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, flying modified Avro Lancasters, known as “The Dambusters,” the aircraft dropped a bomb specially developed to skip along the surface...read more

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Avro Lancaster Mk.X KB882, production number 37183, rolled out of Victory Aircraft Limited in Malton, Ontario, Canada on November 3, 1944. This WW2 Bomber is a National Treasure - an example of Canadian engineering, manufacturing and determination to do...read more

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 Teniente) June 09, 2015

The Lancasters shown in the clip are the BII, with the Bristol Hercules radial engine. 300 BIIs were built by Armstrong Whitworth and were used mostly by Canadian squadrons in 6 Group.

The aircraft’s Squadron can be indentified by their call sign letters. 426 Squadron’s letters were “OW”...read more

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 Teniente) March 18, 2015
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After service in Europe, flying over the dangerous skies of Europe in the Second World War, this aircraft was modified to map the Canadian Arctic, reports CBC News....read more

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 HQ Comando Supremo) January 28, 2015

This Lancaster, flown by F/O Clarence Roy Pegg of B Flight 576 Sqn, took of from RAF Fiskerton, 5 miles East of Lincoln at 17- 45 pm on the evenung of the 16th January 1945 to Bomb the German petro-chemical plant at Zietz troglitz in Central Germany.After succsesfully dropping its Bombs on the...read more

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 HQ Comando Supremo) January 28, 2015

The Battle of the Ruhr was a 5-month long campaign of strategic bombing during the Second World War against the Nazi Germany Ruhr Area, which had coke plants, steelworks, and 10 synthetic oil plants. The campaign bombed twenty-six major Combined Bomber Offensive targets. The targets included the...read more

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