Avro Lancaster R5868 S for Sugar, RAF Museum London

Head on, the Lancaster at the RAF Museum in Hendon, north London, fills the hall wingtip to wingtip. R5868 flew 137 operations, first as Q for Queenie with 83 Squadron and then as S for Sugar with 467 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force, at a time when the average Lancaster survived about 21. Walk around to the nose to see a painted bomb for each operation under Hermann Göring's boast that no enemy plane would fly over the Reich.