Lancaster over the Lancaster
With the BBMF doing a memorial flypast over the crash site on the Lichfield Road, Wednesfield, I thought the the great opportunity to capture the plane low flying over the Lancaster pub not far from there.
By contributor jodie Glover
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On May 17, 1945, just days after the end of World War II in Europe, a Lancaster bomber from RAF East Kirkby crashed in Wednesfield, Wolverhampton. The aircraft, on a routine training flight, developed engine trouble and went down on Lichfield Road, killing all seven young crew members aboard.
The crash left a large crater and wreckage scattered over two miles. The fallen airmen, aged 20 to 24, were later honored with a local memorial and a pub renamed The Lancaster to commemorate their sacrifice.
