​Flight Sergeant Roy Woodgate, who has died aged 103, was the rear gunner of a Wellington bomber which crashed in the Mediterranean and he spent time in a dinghy before being rescued.

Under the haunting glow of a pale moon, the massive Vickers Wellington Bomber from the 75th Squadron ascended over the Zuider Zee on the Dutch shoreline, hastening homeward after a triumphant raid on ...

The Vickers Wellington—a bomber built for high-altitude raids—was never meant to be a submarine hunter. But when Nazi U-boats threatened to strangle Britain’s supply lines, the Wellington was ...