RAF attack German supply lines

7th September 1941: A routine raid - but one man's life is upended when he becomes a POW

The famously robust RAF Vickers Wellington bomber, known as the ‘Wimpy’, partly designed by Barnes Wallis. The most mass-produced British bomber of the war, the aircraft saw service in various roles throughout the war, though it was superseded as a bomber by the four-engined heavy bombers from 1942.

In North Africa, the Luftwaffe focused on the port of T…