Vickers Wellington, Brooklands Aircraft Factory, Brooklands Museum, Surrey, England, October 2020 

thanks for sharing your story

My father was in that squadron

WTF? Whoever said wimpy about aircrew? There's no such thing as a "wimpy tail-gunner". What an obtuse, completely wrong statement, so simultaneously in 2 opposite directions, like "Game of Thrones" OR going 70 mph in a car and slamming the car's transmission into reverse, if you'll indulge the brief, (flabbergasting and flummoxing) comparisons. Fascination with the "Game of Thrones" series is nothing more than glorification of amoral opportunism, the worse, the better, imho. A.O. is savage and barbaric and TOTALLY uncivil, uncivilized, proven bogus and wrong, and thus dismissible entirely; beyond immoral; out of the question, imho. A.O. is what we are trying to avoid to end in building civilization, every bit of both. Reasonably, there is NOTHING more fraudulent and disgusting, at least to Americans, than feudal monarchy. However, the sons and daughters of "The Sons of Liberty" now (seem to) delight in such gynocentric, genes-based despotism so reviled and hated only a few generations ago. What I think happened was the self-empowerment and idiosyncratic self-glorification of woman and, to achieve such, their only distinguishing feature from men is babymaking, yielding nothing BUT feudalism, promotion of nuclear family values uber alles, needless faction, gross, insanely unjust, historically shown to be erroneous, dangerous and debilitating OVERPOPULATION that is the central and ONLY cause for all the social, political and environmental threats, problems, barriers blamed on everything and anything else.

When they made the first raid over Berlin, so audacious, they didn't know if they'd be successful or wiped-out entirely but had JUST a glimpse of the possibility of the advantage of winning control of strategic airspace meant, for the first time that we had the incredible advantage now of dropping anything we could on our enemy with impunity, on target from miles above, even in the dark and bad weather too, 24/7/365. Sooooo, at the time, the Allies AAF recognized the historical importance of THE very first raid on Berlin and made a memorial to the moment, just-re-surfaced-on-RU-vid BTW, film of the pre-flight preparation, launch and happy return landings of the very first raid on Berlin, #1. It is a brave and daring film about a people in a new and terrible war, midfight, dazed and bleeding but steadfast, about to deliver the now painstaking and newly-discovered coup de grace, sure to come IF these air and groundcrew FINALLY succeed, as they increasingly had, in this mission(s), i.e., if we can bomb Berlin, we can bomb and they cannot bomb us. V-E Day was first really imaginable and afterwards, locked-into our consciousness, imho, in late '44; i.e., it won't be long now.

@@jeffwalther3935 Calm down.... 'Wimpy' was the nickname given to the bomber by RAF crews, after J Wellington Wimpy, a character in the Popeye cartoons.

It does indeed deserve a place in the RAF Memorial Flight as do many other aircraft. I believe every aircraft which ever struck a blow against Hitler should be in there.

It wasn’t wooden. It was a metal frame covered with fabric, designed by the great Barnes Wallace. The wooden plane you’re thinking of was the DH Mosquito.

I was talking about wood in place of structural aluminum, steel, and such in up-to-and-including 2 vs. 4-engine breakthrough, warwinning bombers, like the Lancaster? and/or British aircraft relatively exclusively then to be a brilliant technological development fostered by sheer desperation, fueling the adaptive R & D super effort in the British people then, as they could because of their heritage as master wood craftsman to make the (near limitless, highest quality and variety) wood substitutable for scarce strategic metals, a key determinant of victory in the air, then sea and then land in WW2 - for them, the Allies, for us. Cheers!

Wow, are you a real person? Where do you come from?

@@redlioness6627 The United States of America and why in the world would you doubt my humanity or veracity? What prompts your reply, you don't say. Sorta typical, these days.

@@jeffwalther3935 Nah, it is just the way in which you wrote, the way in which you gave much praise, now don't get me wrong, as a Brit it is warming and very welcome, but the way in which you expressed it came across to me as not being native to Britain. In fact it seemed to be as if expressed by a European where English is a second language and with that I ended up reading your comment (in my head) with a comical stereotype German accent like the German accents heard on the 1974 Robert Calvert album "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters". What you typed made more sense to me not only in that accent but also with the attitude exhuded by Robert Calvert himself acting out the role of the Luftwaffe pilot.

To my knowledge there's no wood in the Wellington's construction, don't know where the other poster got that idea.

Probably confusing it with the Mosquito, another twin engined medium bomber.

Found this, looks like a TV documentary with commercials, but has a lot of information ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WzfkRhJ_nzE.html

You should have seen it when it was raised from Loch Ness back in the 80s, literally just the wings attached to what was left of the fuselage!

@@timorvet1 I think I have seen the pictures. It's quite impressive.