Men on Mickey the Moocher

Men on Mickey the Moocher

Ten uniformed men sitting on the nose and cockpit of a Lancaster with one in the pilot's seat. David is second left, he and two others are wearing officer's hats, four wear side caps and four are bare headed. The Lancaster is decorated with a cartoon of Mickey mouse labelled 'Mickey the Moocher' who is pulling a bomb on a bomb trolley towards a signpost labelled '3 Reich' and 'Berlin'. There is a bomb tally under the cockpit showing 91 operations including 12 in daylight. On the reverse 'Davies DC sitting 2nd left'.

One b/w photograph

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PDaviesDC1905; PDaviesDC1906