And a few more. The spire is in two parts . The taller the wing span of a Lanc the shorter a Halifax wing span. Inside it is open. The crew are from the Lancaster that broke the first dam & died returning.
The Lancaster sculpture denotes operation Manna where we dropped food to the starving Dutch in 1945 before the war ended. This involved low level daylight flights over occupied land. The Germans having agreed safe zones.
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