This year the Battle Proms are going to be bigger and better than ever, and this month three lucky Club members will win a pair of tickets each.
All current members have been automatically entered into this month's ballot.
Header image: Lancaster B1 PA474 photographed at the 2024 BBMF Members’ Day (Photo: Claire Hartley). (Inset: PA474’s data plate giving its build completion date as 31-5-45.)
On 31st May, BBMF Lancaster B1 PA474 is officially 80 years old, with the data plate located inside the aircraft recording that its original build was completed on 31st May 1945.
Header image: Liberated Allied prisoners of war walk past Lancaster ‘F2-Z’ of 635 (Pathfinder) Sqn at Lubeck aerodrome, Germany, on 11th May 1945, to board a Lancaster for a flight home.
Eighty years ago, in April and May 1945, RAF Bomber Command became involved in an urgent humanitarian operation to repatriate thousands of recently released Allied prisoners of war from Europe to Britain. The Bomber Command operation ran from 3rd April to 31st May 1945 and was given a wholly appropriate code name, Operation Exodus.
