Short Stirling & RAF Bomber Command Forum

It's a Heinkel 111, but wait a minute!! it's too easy to fall into the trap. And the trap is, that it's two Heinkels joined together to make a "Z1" ;) variant. Hi Alan, I agree with you on the HE III Z 1'Zwilling' guess, due the the position of the set back low cockpit dome. I am not ente...

As it's a four engined aircraft, my guess it's a Boeing (B17) (Fortress I ,as used by the Royal Air Force)

Bob

It would have been a great loss to have gone through all of the training only to be lost on the way to the UK without the opportunity to "do their bit". I'll have a look back through Jim Munro's story and try to identify the ships sunk and what the losses were. Kerry Kerry, It was a cruel...

It appears to be the luck of the draw as to the difference in travel conditions of RAAF aircrew on their way to the UK. Below are two contrasting examples. Jim Munro (Holidaying on the Continent), Navigator, travelled west towards South Africa on the SS Westernland and describes conditions as: ‘The...

Hi Bob many thanks for your information. I have seen some photos of the funeral. What a tragic incident; which brings home the fact that so many young aircrew died from training accidents. I am looking to see what other information I can find but understand that the Hurricane pilot did survive but ...

Hi Merlin, I hope this is the kind of detail your require. Bob Stirling III LK380 XY-Y OF RAF 90 Squadron Mildenhall, was on a routine training flight when it was involved in a mid air collision with a Hurricane iv KW800 from the Air Development Fighting Unit. When news reached RAF Mildenhall, they ...

Here we go. I think by the design of the turret, its a B-25G Mitchell.

Bob

A Lancaster II with a prototype dorsal turret.

Its a Sunderland III Flying Boat General (Reconnaisance)

After looking at the photograph, my bet it is the Port of Hamburg on the Elbe. Both the USAAF and RAF bombed Hamburg, but the most infamous bombing is the 27th July 1943 when the RAF bombing caused a firestorm.

Bob