The Phantom of the Ruhr Christmas card

The Phantom of the Ruhr Christmas card

Greetings cards showing a Lancaster with undercarriage down and a Royal Air Force pilot's badge. Captioned, 'The Phantom' and '1944 Greetings'. The nose of the Lancaster is decorated with a cloaked skeleton reaching down through clouds. Annotated, 'From Tommy Phil & baby Malcolm'. On reverse of one card is 'Tommy's plane' and on another, 'Wishing you a merry Xmas and a happy New Year. P.S. This aircraft as done 116 operations'.

1944

Three printed cards

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