First crew
Title
First crew
Description
Group of seven airmen and a note identifying the men.
Back row, from left: Sergeant Davis, navigator; Sergeant Powell, wireless operator; Sergeant Cotton, flight engineer; Sergeant Topham, rear gunner.
Front row, from left: Flying Officer Harris, bomb aimer; Stan Dodwell, pilot; Sergeant Sanders, mid upper gunner.
The item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive in digital form: no better quality copies are available.
Back row, from left: Sergeant Davis, navigator; Sergeant Powell, wireless operator; Sergeant Cotton, flight engineer; Sergeant Topham, rear gunner.
Front row, from left: Flying Officer Harris, bomb aimer; Stan Dodwell, pilot; Sergeant Sanders, mid upper gunner.
The item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive in digital form: no better quality copies are available.
Date
1944-12
Temporal Coverage
Spatial Coverage
Language
Type
Format
Two b/w photographs
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Identifier
PDodwellSLP25010013; PDodwellSLP25010014; SDodwellSL72147v10012-0001; SDodwellSL72147v10012-0002;
Collection
Citation
“First crew,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed October 12, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/58251.



