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Crew debrief
Airmen gathered round a table as an officer writes. Captioned 'Interrogation of a Lancaster bomber crew after one of the big raids on Berlin'.
Lancaster and leaflets
Rear fuselage of Lancaster squadron letters EA (49 Squadron) with airmen loading bundles of leaflets form a trolley. Captioned 'Back to nickel raiding: loading leaflets into a Lancaster of a Rhodesian squadron before one of the big raids on Hamburg.…
Lancaster in Hangar
View of front quarter of Lancaster in hangar with three men looking on and two working on top. Captioned 'working on a Canadian built Avro Lancaster. Turrets are fitted after arrival in Britain'.
Lancaster in assembly
Photograph of Lancaster assembly line in factory. Captioned 'Lancasters on assembly'.
Damaged Lancaster
Side view of a Lancaster with missing port aileron. below images of the rear of port and starboard wings with missing parts. Captioned 'Lateral instability: a Lancaster which recently came home minus both ailerons. The photographs below are close-ups…
Lancaster - honourable retirement
Side view of Lancaster W4783with many rows of operation bomb symbols on fuselage below cockpit. Captioned 'Honourable retirement: with 90 "Ops" to its credit, this RAAF Lancaster 1, "G" for George has been presented to premier John Curtin for the…
The latest bomb weighs 12,000 lbs
Title with clouds in background.
Lancaster
View from below looking up at a Lancaster with letters 'VN-N'.
Lancasters above cloud
View from front quarter of airborne Lancaster flying above clouds with another Lancaster following below and behind. Captioned 'Flying high: two Lancaster IIs, each powered with four Hercules engines, flying above the clouds'.
Lancaster 1
Page showing four artwork images of Lancaster from various quarters above and below. Title 'Lancaster I (4-Merlin), bomber, maximum speed 280 mph, cruising speed 210 mph'.
V weapon launch site
Image of launching site with craters. Captioned 'Pest's nest: a launching site of the larger type in the Pas de Calais area. Repairs are nearing completion and further attention from Allied bombers seems about due. Note craters and slit trenches'.
After the raid
Photograph of night view with vehicles and people on ground with searchlight looking up. Building on left (control tower) has people on balcony. Captioned 'after the raid: the station commander of a Bomber Command station watches the return of his…
Royal visitors
King, Queen and Princess Elizabeth in centre of a large crows of servicemen. Captioned 'Royal visitors: a happy picture of the King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth during their visit to several bomber command stations. The aircrews had just returned…
Attack on ammunition dump
View from the air of burning target area. Captioned 'Up in smoke: terrific explosions occurring during a night raid by Lancasters on an ammunition dump at Sable-sur-Sarthe, near Le Mans'.
Heinsburg
Target photograph showing bomb explosions and another Lancaster below on top right. Captioned 'Brewing up: an RAF Lancaster makes its run over the target during the daylight bombing of Heinsburg'.
Dawn arrival - Lancaster
View from rear of a Lancaster in silhouette engines running with people on the right. Captioned 'Dawn arrival: an Avro Lancaster , back from a raid, taxies to its dispersal point. Judicious use of the wheel brakes, and power from two inboard…
Airborne Lancaster
Front quarter view looking down at an airborne Lancaster letters 'PG-?' flying above cloud. Captioned 'A Lancaster III on a daylight test flight above cloud'.
Sinking of the Tirpitz
Account of Bomber Command sinking of the Tirpitz with 12,000 lb bombs. Discusses the use of aircraft to sink warships and the effect of explosions of ships magazines in British battleships. Includes b/w photograph of sunken ship and diagram relating…
Wizernes V-weapon bunker
Reconnaissance photograph showing heavily cratered area around the dome shaped Wizernes V-weapon storage site. Large craters were created by Tallboy bombs dropped by 617 Squadron on 24th June 1944. Caption 'More to be pitted: an installation in Pas…
Bomb dump
An airman standing between two rows of bombs piled three high. Captioned 'Retribution in waiting: a scene in one of the many hundreds of bomb dumps in this country. Apart from all the other complicated organisation necessary to stage a heavy raid on…
Lancasters over Hamburg
Image from above of silhouette of a Lancaster with anti-aircraft tracer lines and bomb explosions below. Captioned 'on the night of January 30th, Lancasters reached Hamburg through exceptionally stormy weather, got on their target, and in half an…
Hanover
Outline of streets can be seen amongst fire and explosions. Captioned 'Illuminated Baedecker: the streets of Hannover on fire during the recent heavy attack by Bomber Command on that city. The broad ribbon running diagonally is the Sale Strasse'.
Falling bombs
Six views of bombs falling. captioned 'Down Germany way: a remarkable series of photographs showing a salvo of 1000 lb bombs falling from an Avro Lancaster. It is interesting to note how the missiles appear to point in different directions, even in…
Brunswick
Reconnaissance photograph showing city centre. Captioned 'For how much longer? A reconnaissance photograph of the bomb damage to Brunswick. For every week the war continues some German city is devastated by allied aircraft'.
Wedding telegram
Heartfelt congratulations and wishing every happiness.