![]() ![]() I was brought up knowing that my Dad, John Edgar Wainwright, known by everyone as Jack, then a Constable in the Metropolitan Police, had survived having been shot down by a Messerschmitt 110 night fighter over France in 1944. The original version of this website (published in 2005) is now long gone due to the web host folding and this is a relaunch (2014). ![]() ![]() This website now displays to those interested what we found with a little digging around the records available, and much more detail pulled together after making contact with relatives of the members of the crew and continues to grow as I get further information. In the process of doing the research for the project we have found out much more than we ever knew before about my father's time in Bomber Command during WWII and his amazing, yet sadly commonplace story and the stories of the men he shared a Lancaster bomber with in dark hostile skies 75 years ago. The project was excellent thanks to James' hard work on it, and he got an A+ and won the end of year project prize at his school, Gidea Park College. Knowing I had my own Father's memorabilia from his time serving in Bomber Command in the RAF I suggested we could base it on that. My eldest son's school set a Spring project every year and in March 2004 he came home and told me that he had to write 30 pages on a subject to do with the Second World War. ![]()
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