Sixteen Airmen and an 8000 pound Bomb

PCothliffKB15090015.jpg

Title

Sixteen Airmen and an 8000 pound Bomb

Description

An 8000 pound bomb on a trolley with 16 airmen arranged behind it. Further behind is a Lancaster. The bomb has written on it 'Merry Christmas from the RCAF. An 8000lb present for Adolph. But if he can read this, he's lucky'. There are christmas decorations including a paper bell on the bomb. It is annotated 'PL19911'.

Language

Type

Format

One b/w photograph

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

PCothliffKB15090015

Citation

“Sixteen Airmen and an 8000 pound Bomb,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/24877.

Item Relations

This item has no relations.