Denis and his crew - November, 1942

Denis and his crew - November, 1942

A group of six aircrew under the nose of a Lancaster with nose art, the name 'Zola' and bomb symbols. Article relates that crew had requested that the creator of the cartoon in the Daily Mirror to draw them Zola as a mascot. Notes the targets that the aircraft has attacked.

1942-10

One newspaper cutting

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Denis and his crew – November, 1942
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Here is the Lancaster bomber, Zola (and crew), about which we told you the other day. The crew asked Monk, creator of Buck Ryan and Zola strip-cartoon in the “Daily Mirror,” to draw them Zola as a mascot. Zola in the strip has travelled about a bit, but not so much as Zola the bomber. She’s hovered over Wismar, Genoa, Milan, Turin, Hamburg, Bremen, Essen, Stuttgart, and a few other places.