Norman Brown has lived in Cambridge since 1970, but was originally from Newcastle [Stephen Huntley/BBC] A 101-year-old veteran has been reunited with a type of plane he maintained during World War Two ...
WITH the 72nd anniversary of the sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship AHS Centaur on May 14, 1943, it was a Bundaberg-based aircrew who spotted survivors. This aircrew was flying on convoy escort ...
The five men killed in a WWII training flight crash on a north east mountain are being remembered 70 years on. Much of the wreckage from the Avro Anson air crash, which happened on 21 August 1942, ...
VANCOUVER -- On Oct. 30, 1942, an Avro Anson Second World War aircraft lifted off from Patricia Bay on Vancouver Island for a routine training mission carrying a Canadian sergeant and three British ...
The heroics of the first woman awarded the George Cross after saving an RAF pilot trapped in the wreckage of his burning bomber have been retold in a book. Daphne Pearson pulled “bomber boy” David ...
THE chronicler of a Yeadon aircraft factory's war effort hopes the New Year will bring recognition from Leeds Bradford Airport of the work of thousands of Aireborough people. Gerald Myers, of Tranmere ...
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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The fascinating history of the Avro Anson is just one Riverland story to be put in the spotlight by an ...
A 101-year-old veteran has been reunited with a type of plane he maintained during World War Two. Norman Brown joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a mechanic at 18 and was sent to South Africa, where ...
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