Recently, we lost that great British dramatic actor Richard Attenborough, whose role in The Great Escape set the tone for the great laconic and stoic British war heroes depicted thereafter. In 1963, Attenborough appeared in…

There it is – on the left!” someone cried from behind us. A wave of excitement swept over the crowd of visitors at the Vintage Wings Open House. We all turned to the left, and searched the sky…

As the Second World War wound down in Europe, the Allied powers, which had previously been focused on the destruction of Hitler’s Nazi-run Germany, began to think about the battle to come…

This past summer, something happened in the warbird world that has not happened in more than fifty years, something so creative, so daring and so anticipated, …

There was no sensation of falling. I seemed to be floating motionless in space as I heard the high-pitched scream of Rolls-Royce Merlin engines rapidly fading away into the cold blackness of the night….

The end of the Second World War meant many things to the pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). It meant going home, eating mom’s cooking once again, breathing that particularly crisp, and…

At around 10:30 a.m., on a cold and windy 11 November 1990, a woman in her late eighties by the name of Mrs. Elsie May Pearce walked slowly and sadly up the broad grey granite steps of ….

Il y a 72 ans, dans la nuit du 16 au 17 janvier 1943, le sergent de section Andrew Carswell, âgé de 20 ans, éprouvait des sérieux ennuis. Il était le pilote et le commandant de l’Avro Lancaster WS-A (numéro de série RAF W4379) du 9e Escadron. Aux environs de la ville de Magdeburg…