History of War

RE-CREATING A LANCASTER COCKPIT

Described as an homage to the war films of the 1940s and 50s, directed by Callum Burn tells the fictional story of a Lancaster bomber crew in the lead-up to a crucial raid on Berlin in 1944. With the story commencing in 1943, the film finds Flight Lieutenant Douglas Miller angry and bereaved by the death of his younger brother. As a former Spitfire pilot, Miller finds himself transferred to Bomber Command and

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