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A crew charge 1000 pounders inside a Avro Lancaster. The Avro Lancaster was a four-engined Second World War heavy bomber designed and built by Avro. Together with the Handlay Page Halifax it was the heavy bomber used by the RAF, the RCAF, and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within the RAF. taken from fb/Life photo The "Lanc", as it was affectionately known, became one of the more famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 long tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties.