The Nanton Bomber Command Museum is hosting an event this weekend, which will honour the Indigenous air crew that fought in the Second World War. According to the Museum Curator, Karl Kjarsgaard, the ...

What it felt like for WWII Canadian bomber crews to take to the skies in a struggle of life and death, usually on cold, dark nighttime missions. ‘You never saw your friends die. They were just ...

In his dad’s squadron – which operated from January 1943 to April 1945, 944 airmen were killed. Of those, 155 were Canadian. “I think that Bomber Command needs to be known.

The following is adapted from the essay “Flying in the Dark: The Canadian Bomber Command Experience and Meg Braem’s ‘Flight Risk,’ ” which accompanies Braem’s just-published play. In ...

A Personal Look at Bomber Command. The literary scholar Harold Bloom was paraphrasing Oscar Wilde when he said, “all bad poetry is sincere”. This book is, indeed, sincere and the author has a lot to ...

The following is adapted from the essay “Flying in the Dark: The Canadian Bomber Command Experience and Meg Braem’s ‘Flight Risk,’ ” which accompanies Braem’s just-published play. In ...

In an address to the Empire Club of Canada in November 1945, he praised Bomber Command and said its relentless air campaign against Germany had hastened that country’s defeat. Article content ...

A memorial to the crew of a Lancaster bomber is due to be unveiled in Holland, 67 years after it went missing on a disastrous night for Bomber Command. Of the seven-man crew, only three bodies ...

Read about the 2025 a charity ride-in to the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln, which honours 80 years of Operation Manna in WW2, here with MCN.

The following is adapted from the essay “Flying in the Dark: The Canadian Bomber Command Experience and Meg Braem’s ‘Flight Risk,’ ” which accompanies Braem’s just-published play. In the opening lines ...