Radial Lancasters
Excellent to see the Lancaster Mk 11 variant being recognised which brought back some personal memories.
As a student in the late sixties, I worked part time in a popular fish and chip shop in Sale, South Manchester where the owner disclosed he had been an air gunner with 115 Sqn his history backed up with his operational log book.
He had been the only survivor when his aircraft a radial Avro Lancaster 11 was attacked landing in darkness and crashed on the approach to ( I think ) Woolfox Lodge.
He had swapped his mid position for the rear position that night and thought the German attacker was a Ju 188 because of a glimpse of it's extensive glazing.
Despite very extensive burns he made a complete recovery and resumed his life in the family business after the war.