"Lest we forget" 73 years ago on 18 November 1943 the 'Battle of Berlin' begins……The Lancaster LM370 SR-K2 took part as an ABC equipped Lancaster in the first massive raid of the “The Battle of Berlin” on 18–19 November 1943. Berlin was the main target and was attacked by 440 Lancasters aided by 4 Mosquitos. Few German fighters intercepted the Bomber force, 9 Lancasters were lost. Berlin was completely cloud-covered and both marking and bombing were carried out blindly. Bomber Command could make no assessment of the results; many bombs fell outside the city and the local report lists much damage and loss at farms. On its return flight from their mission to Berlin the Irish pilot Flying Officer Charles Patrick McManus and his crew, flying the Lancaster LM370 SR-K2 were attacked at 23.12 hrs. over Schoonebeek and shot down by German night fighter pilot Feldwebel Rudi Frank flying a JU 88 of 2./NJG 3. The Lancaster crashed close to Schoonebeek and the entire crew lost their lives. Let’s keep the remembrance alive of what Barry Kingsley Petyt, Anthony Ezra Rosen, Charles Harold Downs, George Philip Herman, Guy Dermot Spyers, Kenneth Jones, George Herbert Gittins and Charles Patrick McManus did for our freedom. The entire crew of Lancaster LM370 SR-K2 is buried on the cemetery in Schoonebeek in the Netherlands.Rest In Peace.