WW2 Bomber Command: Lancaster bombing raid (unknown target)

Colour footage with sound of a WW2 RAF bomber crew

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[wparker0123]

This is part of the film on the bombing of Dresden, 1945

[VikingG]

@wparker0123 Are you sure? Others have suggested it was filmed during a mission to Hannover or Essen.

[newtothisification]

I am mesmerized by this

We have known an elderly man for 15 years ... beyond quite... very withdrawn ..it is only in helping to move him to a seniors home that we have learned that he was a navigator in the Canadian Lancaster's

we found a flight book with over 30 flights recorded .. photos and medals that family didn't even know about

How and where can I find out more about the brave Canadian men who were involved ?

Thanks

Any help would be wonderful

[VikingG]

@newtothisification I've not read it, but there's a book called 'No Prouder Place: Canadians and the Bomber Command Experience, 1939-1945' by David Bashow that might be worth reading. There's also the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton, which has a restored Lancaster.

[Aussiephil99]

At one point just before the bombs are dropped one of the crew says........'I could do with a pint'.................classic!­!!

[oscarfish38]

100% RESPESCT... So proud of the old boys. Balls of steel.

[TalonMercenary]

All heroes!!!!

[weberpa]

A site I made for my Lancaster navigator uncle who didn't make it back wifred.paulweber.ca

[florianska6]

Please help.

Does anyone have any information regarding any crew details and / or survivors of Lancaster " AS-Z", Serial Number JD 649 assigned to 166 Squadron?

Aircraft was lost on mission to Stuttgart on 26 July 1944.

My cousin (R.S. Drongeson) was the F/E, who died shortly after. I never met him as I was born after WWII ended.

Florianska6

[Elaine11160]

What an awesome video - My Dad (born in 1919 - 2006) was a Canadian Navigation Flight Lieutenant Officer from a tiny little farming com. Oxbow Sask. He vol. at age 20 in 1939 - was sel for navigator & then trained for 2 yrs. ( the pilots & navigators had to train for 2 yrs. first - main training fac,. for British colonies was in Canada). Then from 1941 to 1945 he successfully flew many back to back missions with Bomber Command - backup bombed on D Day - was shot down & survived! A HERO at 25

[Krylogenic]

Bombing civilians isnt glory and doesnt make heroes, we did it to the Japanese and killed over 2 million with our fire bombing and I have met many of the survivors of the crews and none were happy with what they had to do but they did it to end a stupid war and the same for these brave men, dangerous but they had to do it, I am sure many where not happy killing women and children and old people but thats what they were doing, not destroying aircraft or military targets. especially in Dresden.

[dave2806]

@newtothisification the debt we owe Canadian servicemen is huge , a big war memorial to them is in London . they came without asking , in numbers greater than there population and fought like lions ! god bless you all .

[Wills7729]

merlin100ful - Try 'WW2 Talk'- site lots of contacts and knowledge there. Good luck.

[diadromiful]

this job was not so easy in bombercommand .a lot of hours in a dangerous aria in a Lancaster always a risk in the aria of the Nazi enemy

very much respect for the heroes!!!

[maureenOWW]

'...firing at us now.....you could light your fag on any of those!'

An american crew would be more like 'JESUS H JIMMY JAMES CHRIST ALMIGHTY, ITS LIKE THE GODDMAN FOURTH OF JULY OUT THERE!!!'

[nphanlon1973]

can you imagine the fear that these boys are feeling?Wrong place,wrong time;goodnight.!!!My neighbour was a navigator in the RAAF,the only graduate of his navigators class to survive the war.