Aircrew

Aircrew

Top - seven aircrew, three sitting in front and four standing behind. All are wearing tunics with brevet and peaked or side caps. In the background are huts. Submitted with description 'F/O Burroughs' crew. Undated but location believed to be RAF Metheringham. By reference to the handwritten annotation and 106 Sqn's Operations Record Book the following crew members can be identified: F/O M R Burroughs, pilot (seated, centre); F/O O G Owen, bomb aimer (seated left) and F/Sgt T E Gray, flight engineer (standing second left). The remaining crew members, all Sgt's, are: D P Brown, navigator; R J Goddard, WOP; C T Bradley, MUG and J A Ormerod, RG'.
Bottom - seven aircrew, some wearing battledress and others parachute harnesses, all standing in line in front of the rear fuselage of a bomber aircraft with squadron letters 'ZN-R'. Submitted with description 'Unidentified aircrew standing next to 106 Sqn Lancaster ZN-R. Date and location unrecorded. The whole crew appear to be NCO's and the pilot is standing at the extreme right of the photgraph [sic]. Three of the crew are wearing chest-type parachute harnesses'.

Two b/w photographs mounted on an album page

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