Description
Top - newspaper cutting 'Last of the line' showing top a picture of airborne Lancaster and below a photograph of a Lancaster with large crowd of spectators. Writes that last flying example of Lancaster had been saved. The French Air Force agreed to sign over aircraft to British Historic Aircraft Preservation Society if they could fly it back from Australia. Target was £11,000 for flight back, which took 66 hours over three weeks and 14,000 gallons of petrol. Wing Commander John Nicholls (who flew 85 Lancaster operations) was in the cockpit. Aircraft landed at Biggin Hill. Annotated with handwritten date '14/5/65'.
Bottom left - newspaper cutting 'Call-up for air gunners'. Call for Essex airmen who were air gunners to take part in remembrance service at St Clement Danes in London. Quotes Arthur Pearce of Billericay, the vice-chairman of the Air Gunners' Association.
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