RAF squadron leader and crashed Hampden

PFOMetheringhamAF19040003.jpg

Title

RAF squadron leader and crashed Hampden

Description

Top - head and shoulders portrait of an RAF officer sitting looking back from the pilot's seat of an aircraft. Submitted with description 'S/Ldr Ron Churcher in the pilot's seat of an aircraft. Date and place unknown'.
Bottom - distant view from rear quarter of a crashed Hampden in a field. Submitted with description '106 Sqn Hampden AE151, ZN-F, crashed at Oosteinde Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Netherlands. This aircraft was damaged by both anti-aircraft fire and a night fighter and with one engine out of action it crash landed on 21/12/1941'.

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Format

Two b/w photographs mounted on an album page

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Identifier

PFOMetheringhamAF19040003

Citation

“RAF squadron leader and crashed Hampden,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/31240.

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