The Lancaster


The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the Royal Canadian Air Force and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving with RAF Bomber Command. The "Lanc" or "Lankie," as it became affectionately known, became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties. Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is a great blog and a well done work. I knew a little about the story on the Dams Buster. These guys was pretty good and real heroes because what they did was in fact almost what should be called the British Royal Air Force Kamikazee.
These guys were just heroes and I am happy today to feel their sons on my side as friends and allied.