Lancaster in the snow at Waddington

Lancaster in the snow at Waddington

Lancaster, rear/side view, surrounded by snow. In foreground an airman with his back to the camera. Captioned ‘Lancaster III “JO-E” (ED806) of 463 Squadron in the snow at Waddington during the winter of 1943/44’.

ED806 was on the strength of 9 Squadron and was marked WS-L when it crashed on 9 April 1943 . ED606 was a 463 Squadron aircraft marked JO-E and crashed after a collision with another aircraft 15 March 1944.

1943

1944

One b/w photograph

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