Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Avro Lancaster documentary

1989 documentary on the RCAF Lancaster KB726 VR-A, Mynarski Memorial Lancaster. A tribute to all the brave Canadians and Commonwealth aircrews that flew with Bomber Comand during the war.

[@allandavis8201]

I am a huge fan of the Lancaster, my grandfather was an apprentice at A.V ROE before the war and he gave me his apprenticeship handbooks when I joined the RAF In 1979, he was also part of the team that did the Bombay modifications for 617 Sqn Dambusters aircraft. The handbooks he gave me were actually very helpful during my training, quite a bit of the fabrication of parts was especially helpful, especially the formulas for working out bend radius for sheet metals and pipelines, and would still be as relevant today, over 70 years later, and that is quite incredible. Thanks grandad Jim (John) Appleby, you and your gift were more precious than you ever realised. RIP, Lest We Forget, Per Ardua Ad Astra.

[@stevendee2831]

My gramps served RCAF. Lanc pilot. He worked up from maintenance then , flight sergeant engineer then navigator and pilot.

[@Chriswizzv12]

Managed to see her on her visit to the Uk. When she flew with the city of Lincoln. Found leaning about her history really interesting.

[@MrDaiseymay]

I visited Canada in May 2014, and was taken to see this Lancaster, ''VERA'', in her Museum home. I was able to stand underneath her huge open Bomb-Bay doors, and chatted with some of her crew member's, who were preparing her, for the flight across the Atlantic, to tour around Britain, later that year. I was very surprised to be able to get up so close to VERA, a great experience.

[@joeszymanski6936]

I live near Hamilton and see VRA fly regularly over our town. No mistaking the sound of four Merlins rumbling overhead.

[@Jourell1]

My grandfather served in the RCAF as a flight mechanic aboard the Lancasters. I honestly don't know much about his service as he didn't openly speak about that time in his life. I only heard stories at his memorial after he passe away. It was an eye opening experience.

[@intuitknit]

I had a dear friend who served as a navigator on the Lancaster. He was small in stature so was suited to be in the compartment for the navigator. He was affected by the experience and didn't like to talk about it as he survived but many of his fellow air men didn't. They never knew if they would return. Remembrance day was always a difficult day for him and he felt guilty about the bombs they dropped as well as sad for his friends. He was a very fine man and lived into his nineties.

[@cheryldawdy5962]

My grand father enjoyed serving the rcaf as a mid upper gunner later became a pilot on the avro lancaster mk x kb 810 se-h aka horsey Harry mom and I are restoring avro lancaster mk x 104 at B.C.Aviation museum after she moved to her new home town from her former home town of Toronto Ontario🙂👍it's a Cool hobby and job

[@brustar5152]

If that is the Lanc that stood on a pedestal across Lakeshore Blvd., from the Toronto Exhibition gates, thank heavens it's getting the TLC it so desperately needed. It was rotting on that dang pedestal with birds nesting in it and the weather beating the hck out of it.

[@kenc9236]

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.

[@timothynoble816]

We can never repay the debt to ALL those Canadians who gave their lives in the cause of freedom....God bless Canada......from all of us, to all of you...

[@MrDaiseymay]

My English half brother, (I have just discovered) flew Lancaster's, with the RAAF, 460 Sqn for 3 years of the war, then was transfered to RAF 199 Sqn, on Halifax Mk 3's. Sadly he was killed on the last Bomber Command mission of the war. 3/5/1945.

[@rogerthomson9461]

My mother was a midwife in the RCAF after the war . They used to fly to remote places in the North and deliver Inuit babies in converted Lancasters.

[@jandmchavez]

" A LONG TIME AGO WE ALL STOOD TOGETHER , YANK , CANADIAN , BRIT, ALLIES ALL "

[@nickdanger3802]

B.Mk.X, manufactured by Victory Aircraft in Malton Ontario Canada. A total of 430 of this type were built, earlier examples differing little from their British-built predecessors, except for using (Lend Lease) Packard Merlin engines and American instrumentation and electrics. Late-series models replaced the Frazer Nash mid-upper turret with a differently configured Martin turret (USA).
Avro 683 “Lancaster” B.Mk.III United Kingdom - World War II four-engined heavy bomber page

[@arniewilliamson1767]

They flew night after night knowing there was only a 1 in 3 chance of surviving their tour.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

With Lubeck, Rostock, Dresden, Darmstadt, Wurzburg, and other over the top actions to appease the "revenge/reap as you sow/whirlwind"-slogan chanters, European states/empires as powers in a multipolar world which had dominated world affairs till then, was destroyed.
After 1945 there was no more "multipolar world" to divide and rule over, and London had to give way to Washington DC (American Century) and a new unipolar reality of master/junior partner.
A "Big Three" to rule the world? LOL...
All as a consequence of own misguided previous attitudes (policy standpoints) and actions going back centuries.
Therefore, as a result of an own unwillingness to adapt to changing realities, their own Empire died.
Sad...
Like R.E.H. Dyer, the "hero" of the Amritsar Massacre, Harris and others like him, were the grave digger of the British Empire and only fools would shower them with boyhood-style admiration...
Dyer "only" ordered to open fire on a few 1,000 victims.
Harris ordered to "open fire" on hundreds of thousands.
Dyer was given a hero's welcome when he returned, and was showered with "crowd funded" Pounds of admiration, by a horde of Empire apologists...