Robert Orton in rear turret
Title
Robert Orton in rear turret
Description
Gunner wearing Mae West sitting in rear turret of a bomber.
It is a Rose turret with two .50 machine guns and no perspex. Captioned 'Wednesday 24 September 2014, Sergeant Robert Orton aged 20 in the rear turret of an Avro Lancaster bomber. Photograph taken at RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire in late summer 1945. Just after the 2nd World War had ended'.
It is a Rose turret with two .50 machine guns and no perspex. Captioned 'Wednesday 24 September 2014, Sergeant Robert Orton aged 20 in the rear turret of an Avro Lancaster bomber. Photograph taken at RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire in late summer 1945. Just after the 2nd World War had ended'.
Date
1945
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Type
Format
One b/w photograph mounted on paper
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Identifier
POrtonR2016
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Citation
“Robert Orton in rear turret,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/29083.
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