The crew of the BK716 Short Stirling bomber. Recovery experts have identified a Second World War bomber lying on the bottom of the Markermeer near Amsterdam, resolving a 12-year-long mystery. Defence ...

The BK716 Short Stirling bomber was shot down by a German fighter pilot on March 30, 1943, on its way back from a raid over Berlin. The wreckage was located in 2008 when a piece of machinery became ...

At the age of 19, in 1944 Mr Gill became a RAF rear gunner at North Creake Airfield, near Wells on the Norfolk coast in Squadron 199 of the Bomber Command’s RAF 100 Group. One memory he recounted was ...

In the second incident, Alan Green's Stirling bomber flew from Norfolk and was hit in the early hours of 21 June 1942, killing three of the eight crew. Stuart Green said researching the story had ...

Two RAF squadrons were based at North Creake which were the 199 and the 171 - both part of Bomber Command’s RAF 100 Group. They flew Stirling and Halifax bombers and their role was to carry ...