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To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy D Day Landings and the campaign that followed, I wanted to tell the story of Avro Lancaster bomber LM111 WP-G, hit by flak and shot down by a night fighter whilst on a bombing mission over Normandy on the 7 August 1944. The determined escape of...

Hi - I'm very late to this post but came across it when researching my Grandfather's bombing mission on 7/8 August 1944. He was the navigator on LM111 WP-G which was shot down and crashed near Clarbec, Calvados. There were 2 Royal Canadian Air Force crew members on-board, D.Reid & H.M.Kiddie...