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'Holly's never dealt with anger like this': TV star and Phillip Schofield shared 'emotional phone call over reaction to queue-gate'Įmeli Sande is engaged! Singer reveals girlfriend Yoana Karemova has popped the question - six months after coming out as LGBTQ+ The men are all listed on the Runnymede memorial which commemorates the 20,389 World War Two airmen with no known graves. The other crew members who died were Squadron Leader Martin Bryan-Smith, Flight Lieutenant Henry Jeffery, Acting Flight Sergeant Guy Dunning, Acting Flight Sergeant Frank Watson, Australian Flight Lieutenant Ronald Conley, and Canadian Flight Lieutenant Herbert Rieger. The aircraft’s last contact came at 5.04am acknowledging a message from a controller, before falling silent.Įberspacher was scrambled to patrol the Normandy coast in his Focke-Wulf 190 fighter as a wave of RAF bombers headed towards their target.Ĭarter and his crew had successfully completed their mission and turned for home when their plane came under fire.įrench farm workers watched as the bomber descended in flames, but the crash site near Carentan in Normandy had remained undiscovered. The rest were from Canada, Australia and New Zealand 72 per cent of Bomber Command dead were British.635,000 is the estimate of German civilians killed.1.3million tons of bombs dropped by the Allies on Germany.9,838 bomber crew became prisoners of war.Chances of surviving war lower than infantry officer in First World War trenches 4 per cent average chance of being shot down per mission - but crews had to complete at least 30.55,573 died in action, a death rate of 44 per cent.125,000 Bomber Command air crew serving during World War Two.19 Victoria Crosses won by men of Bomber Command, including Guy Gibson, who led the Dam Busters raid.Mr Graves has found hundreds of twisted parts from the Lancaster as well as a string of personal items, including a silver-plated cigarette case and a watch. He had flown Stirling bombers and as a 20-year-old he was forced to bale out over England when his aircraft ran out of fuel returning from Hanover after it was attacked by German fighters. He had flown 58 operational sorties and had won a Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar before his death at 23.Ĭhambers was 97 Squadron’s signals leader and was wireless operator and air gunner on the D-Day flight. The name Vera refers to his wife, Vera Grubb, whom he had married just eight months earlier.īorn in Derby, Flight Lieutenant Chambers had an extraordinary career. The mangled ring, found in a marsh by a French metal detector enthusiast, bears the initials ‘AC’ and the engraved inscription ‘Love Vera’.īritish aviation archaeologist Tony Graves believes the AC refers to a flight lieutenant called Albert Chambers who was on board Lancaster ND 739 which went missing following a dawn mission on June 6, 1944. 'We were at war and the enemy had to be combated': Eberspacher wrote in his log of shooting down three Lancasters that day