Here's one for all the old timers who remember WWII Bomber Command over Europe. I listened to this radio show when the war was raging in Europe, and the Allies were bombing Hitler's "Fortress Europe" into oblivion. "Lanky" aircraft were better known as Lancs; Lancaster bombers that could carry a 22 ton "Big Boy" bomb to be used on strategic targets such as submarine pens in France, Pointe du Hoc gun emplacements before D-Day. They were used extensively over Berlin, the Ruhr Valley and any other target that needed blowing up ie: Peenumunde rocket sites.
This radio show gave us the hope that we would succeed and go on to victory, which we did, with a lot of help from brave men and the great Lancaster Bomber.
Does anyone reading this remember this program in the '40's? If so add to this post.

I believe this program was only aired in Canada.

Ron Lehman

"Calling L for Lanky" "Calling L for Lanky". Wow, Ron, you just brought back many good memories of sitting in front of the console radio with my sister on Saturday and Sunday nights listening to all the great programs of that era. Those were the days my friend. Scotty.

Scotty: I grew up in West Toronto during the '40's about ten miles from Malton Airport (Now Pearson Airport in Toronto) where at A.V. Roe manufactured Lancaster bombers for the war effort. My cousin was one of the instrument panel installers. There are two Lancs still fllying, one out of Duxford in the UK, and the other at Mount Hope airport, at Canadian Warplane Heritage, near Hamilton Ontario. It was built right at the end of WWII and my cousin worked on it. I was a member of this great institution until recently, and sat in the pilots seat on many occasions in the CWH hangar. Haven't flown on it yet, but who knows. I have flown on their B25, and C46 vintage aircraft A wonderful thrill. We used to see them test flying the Lancs before flying them over the Atlantic to England via the Air Transport Command all during WWII. We used to as kids, go up to Malton and watch them roll those beauties out and many times a single pilot would climb aboard with his flying suit on cw parachute, and start those RR Merlins up and take off for the UK. I'll never forget it. A.V. Roe built over 700 during the war, and most ended up in Bomber Command in England or Scotland. Yes Scotty, those were the days. As a self appointed Military historian, I have been to Europe many times and seen what a hole a Big Boy bomb makes in the ground when it lands. It makes a hole over 35' deep in the dirt if it misses its target, and pulverizes concrete into small chunks. Must make one hell of a blast noise. Point du Hoc on the English Channel is a perfect example. British and Canadian Lancs literally blasted it into oblivion.

Cheers Ron.

Scotty: I grew up in West Toronto during the '40's about ten miles from Malton Airport (Now Pearson Airport in Toronto) where at A.V. Roe manufactured Lancaster bombers for the war effort. My cousin was one of the instrument panel installers. There are two Lancs still fllying, one out of Duxford in the UK, and the other at Mount Hope airport, at Canadian Warplane Heritage, near Hamilton Ontario. It was built right at the end of WWII and my cousin worked on it. I was a member of this great institution until recently, and sat in the pilots seat on many occasions in the CWH hangar. Haven't flown on it yet, but who knows. I have flown on their B25, and C46 vintage aircraft A wonderful thrill. We used to see them test flying the Lancs before flying them over the Atlantic to England via the Air Transport Command all during WWII. We used to as kids, go up to Malton and watch them roll those beauties out and many times a single pilot would climb aboard with his flying suit on cw parachute, and start those RR Merlins up and take off for the UK. I'll never forget it. A.V. Roe built over 700 during the war, and most ended up in Bomber Command in England or Scotland. Yes Scotty, those were the days. As a self appointed Military historian, I have been to Europe many times and seen what a hole a Big Boy bomb makes in the ground when it lands. It makes a hole over 35' deep in the dirt if it misses its target, and pulverizes concrete into small chunks. Must make one hell of a blast noise. Point du Hoc on the English Channel is a perfect example. British and Canadian Lancs literally blasted it into oblivion.

Cheers Ron.

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Ron- thanks for the memories
I listened to it every week ( Sunday night?) as a kid- My dad was overseas 1941-45
and brought back a Board game called "L for Lanky" which we used to play.
There is a Lank on a "post' just down the road at CFB Greenwood at their Aviation Museum.
In 1954, when I spent some time down there with Trans Canada Airlines, handling diversions from foggy Halifax,, RCAF were still using them daily for Anti submarine work.
You likely know that late in the war, a few of them were built/converted for TCA and their Trans Atlantic schedule.
I was lucky enough to know and worked with a few of the Flight Radio Officers that flew this route and some of the scary trips they had.
Yes, one of my hobbies is researching and writing articles on early TCA/Air Canada history.

Cheers from the "HOT' Annapolis Valley