Avro Lancaster

Canberra i have to say that i find your comments completely distasteful in light of my having two children who are both classed as disabled.

Again your comments have no bearing to what was being discussed in this thread and i can only assume you are doing what you do best and getting peoples backs up.

I would appreciate you refraining from doing this now and in the future because its really beginning to annoy me now.

Kind Regards,

HawkEye001

Never having seen these clips before, can anyone throw more light on the place they were shot? They appear to be from the same series of colour films of a 156 Sqn crew, which should pin it down to one of the 8 Group airfields that hosted the squadron. Click here to watch, and look for others in the 'Related Clips' section on the right. The crew appears to be mainly Canadian. The date says June 1945, but having looked at other footage on the site, I wouldn't trust it.

Lanc colour clips are as rare as proverbial hens' teeth.....

Sorry I can't help you with any historical research, but when you say that colour Lanc footage is rare, have you seen the following on youtube?

FIRST CLIP

SECOND CLIP

THIRD CLIP

FORTH CLIP

Thanks for your comments. The first clip concurs entirely with my comment through its title ("Rare WWII Colour Film of the Lancaster") - contemporary colour footage is indeed rare.

The second and third clips are from Gp Capt Cozens' 'Night Bombers' shot at Hemswell - believed at one time to be the only such colour footage of Lancasters. And the fourth clip is clearly modern (not WWII, except for Cozens inserts) footage.

The code on the side of the Lanc in the first clip EQ-B seems to be 408 Sqaudron www.bomber-command.info/408sc.htm
408 Sqaudron RCAF www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RCAF/408_wwII.html

Thank you, but any ideas on the 156 Sqn clips, Buccaneer66?

Have you tried the 156 sqaudron forum www.156squadron.com/Forum/default.asp ?

156 was based at Warboys when it received Lancs. It moved to Upwood in Mar. 44., then Wyton in Jun 45.
The first clip shown above is particularly interesting as it shows Mk11 Lancs. [Hercules radial engines]

Very good bit of colour film there sumpter but have no clue as to wher it was taken .

The last clip shows NX611..