This was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII ... then the Lancaster would be the clear victor over the Halifax (to draw an American heavy bomber analogy, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ...
A wreath has been laid by armed forces veterans in memory of six British and Canadian airmen who died when their Halifax ...
Flying above them is a WW2 RAF Halifax bomber and the face of its pilot Cyril Barton. In March 1944 after a night raid in Germany, he flew his damaged plane back over the North Sea. As fuel ran ...