Chan Chandler's biography

BChandlerRChandlerEBv1.pdf

Title

Chan Chandler's biography

Description

A biography of Chan's life.
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet Medal for Valour, flew in the first 1,000-bomber raid, and filmed the liberation of Europe with the RAF’s No.1 Film Production Unit.

Language

eng

Format

20 printed sheets

Rights

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Contributor

Claire Campbell

Identifier

BChandlerRChandlerEBv1

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Citation

“Chan Chandler's biography,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 9, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/53644.