Edwin Bower was the tail gunner on a Halifax bomber that flew from RAF Elvington on the outskirts of the city on bombing missions over Germany.
EXACTLY 80 years after his death, the niece of a young RAF airman killed in the Second World War has revisited his old airbase in York.
Edwin Bower was the tail gunner on a Halifax bomber that flew from RAF Elvington on the outskirts of the city on bombing missions over Germany.
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