"In Remembrance of all aircrew lost"

"It was as if someone had flipped a switch in a dark room and you were the only one picked out of all the other aircraft around you. And you knew what would happen next, because you'd seen other planes suddenly illuminated, then hit by shells. Balls of flames came from the engines, then from the fuselage, and you'd see it all going down and down until it disappeared into total darkness."

Bob Pierson, Lancaster machine gunner.