Sir – Last year, the Canadian Lancaster owned by the Canadian War Planes Museum in Hamilton Ontario flew across the North Atlantic to join forces with our own BBMF Lancaster at Coningsby.

They then teamed up in a joint flying programme in 2014 at airshows which received widespread admiration by many in UK until VERA left us to return to Hamilton. A Canadian Production company team (www.suddenlyseemore.com/portfolioentry/reunion-of-giants) recorded all of this historic flying activity and Morgan Elliott, the producer, has now advised me that the documentary will have cinematic release of this historic film in select cinemas across Canada on Remembrance Day this year.

Her team is trying to arrange similar release in the UK and on our domestic TV and Commonwealth networks around the same time. A DVD version will be available in late November, in time for gift distribution by Christmas. Details on ordering can be found at www.warplane.com/reunion-of-giants.aspx

You may recall that I have been attempting to persuade our British Prime Minister to rectify the omission of a campaign medal award for Bomber Command (BC) when this was considered by Prime Minister Attlee and his HD Committee in 1946.

Commander-in-chief Harris and AOC 8 Group Bennett (Pathfinder Force) were refused any honours and so too was the award of a BC campaign medal.

In December 2012, Prime Minister David Cameron awarded a full Arctic Star campaign medal belatedly to the convoys seamen involved, but simultaneously only an inconspicuous, inadequate clasp to BC aircrew and no award at all for the essential ground crew we had relied upon, day and night regardless of outside weather conditions in which they worked.

Jim Wright
Abingdon