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A Heavy Bomber That Failed Its Mission

The Short Stirling was supposed to be Britain’s answer to the growing need for heavy bombers in World War II. But despite its ...
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Impressive Wreckage Washed up on the Beach Turns Out to Be a WWII British Bomber

The ocean is mysteriously tied to aviation, as so many aircraft were lost at the bottom of it throughout history. Once in a while, the deepest waters will bring back to the surface another piece of ...
BBC

'WW2 bomber's remains' found in North Sea

Wreckage believed to be from a World War Two bomber has been discovered in the North Sea by engineers working on a subsea electricity project. Thought to be an RAF Short Stirling heavy bomber, it was ...
Upstream

North Sea work unearths WW2 bomber

Engineers working on a subsea electricity link between the UK and Norway may have stumbled upon the wreckage of a World War II bomber plane. Sonar imagery conducted by workers on the North Sea Link ...
The Northern Echo

The day the plane fell from the sky

MEMORIES 125 and 129 reported on the crash of a Stirling bomber at 5.15pm on Wednesday, May 31, 1944, onto the Co-operative farm at West Thickley, Shildon. All seven members of crew – led by a ...
BBC

VE Day: The legacy of a mother who lost her sons to war

The losses experienced by the MacRobert family in World War Two were enormous but at the same time typical of the devastation caused by the war. Lady Rachel MacRobert brought up her three sons in ...