The St. George Hotel which was originally built as the Officers' Mess and served the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1942 to 1945
The St. George Hotel by cessna152towser
Canadian War Memorial in front of the St. George Hotel
War Memorial by cessna152towser
Mynarski's Last Salute
Andrew Charles Mynarski V.C. by cessna152towser
A few of the survivors were in attendance
The Last of the Few by cessna152towser, on Flickr
The Lancaster catches the late afternoon sun
Lancaster in the late Afternoon Sun by cessna152towser
During the war the Canadian Lancasters would fly from here to bomb Nuremberg, a hazardous journey at the mercy of enemy fighters and anti-aircraft fire from the ground. Middleton St. George is now a civil airport and as if to remind us of progress, this arrived just as I was about to leave. My German wife and I fly back and forward to visit her family in Nuremberg three or four times per year in the peacetime safety of one of these, the Fokker 70 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines:-
Fokker 70, KLM, PH-WXC by cessna152towser
That's all folks. More on my Flickr pages for anyone interested.
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