04 - The Lancaster Bomber
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I talk to Andrew Panton of the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage centre. Andrew is lucky enough to be one of the pilots for their Lancaster Bomber "Just Jane".
The Lancaster is arguably, one of the most well known planes designed and built in Britain during the Second World War.
When it went into production it quickly became the mainstay of Bomber Command, with 7,377 being made, of which 3,249 would be lost.
125,000 aircrew served with bomber command, and 55,573 would be killed. Thats a 44% kill rate, higher than any other service during the war. A large proportion of which, would have been in Lancaster's.
This is perhaps one reason why the Lancaster is close to people's hearts.
For more information on NX611 "Just Jane" and to book a taxi ride in her have a look at the Lincolnshire Aviation website lincsaviation.co.uk.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to another World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace in this episode I'll be talking to |
| 0:37.0 | Andrew Panton from the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Center here in the UK. Andrew is lucky enough to be one of the pilots |
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| 1:35.0 | that is the iconic sound of the Rolls Royce Merlin engines and a Lancaster bomber the the War. When it came into production it quickly became the mainstay of bomber command with 7,377 |
| 1:57.0 | being made, of which 3,249 would be lost. |
| 2:02.0 | 125,000 air crew served with bomber command, 55,573, will be killed. |
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