Lancaster and group of aircrew

PFOMetheringhamAF19030009.jpg

Title

Lancaster and group of aircrew

Description

Top - front quarter view of a Lancaster parked with another in the distance on the right. Submitted with description 'Lancaster at dispersal on unidentified airfield. Annotated as "'G' George Aug 1943. Vic Coles' kite. Photo by Bill Haig." This Lancaster was ZN-G, the aircraft of P/O Vic Cole, 106 Sqn'.
Bottom - five aircrew, four wearing battledress and side caps and the fifth seated front left wears a tunic with pilot's brevet and peaked cap. Two sitting and three standing all in front of a hut with windows left and right. Submitted with description 'Five RAF airmen in battledress outside a hut -50 Sqn, April 1943. Location unknown. W/Cdr R E Baxter seated on left at front'.

Type

Format

Two b/w photographs mounted on an album page

Rights

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Identifier

PFOMetheringhamAF19030009

Citation

“Lancaster and group of aircrew,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/31221.

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