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W E (Bill) Lucas joined the Royal Air Force in 1940, where he trained as a fighter pilot flying Miles Magisters and Miles Masters, before being posted to RAF Lossiemouth and moving into Bomber Command where he flew the Vickers Wellington 1C. He flew…

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Ordered 1941 and built by A.V. Roe at Chadderton near Manchester as one of a batch of 620 between November 1943 and June 1943. Twenty of this batch either side of ED 932 (Gibson's aircraft) were modified as type 464 provisioning to enable Barnes…

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Harry joined the Royal Australian Air Force on 25 June 1942 as a wireless operator/air gunner and received his initial training in Australia before going to Canada for his trade training.

He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…

BLazenbyHJLazenbyHJv1.pdf
Harold Jack Lazenby's autobiography.

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Written by his nephew, a narrative of Reg's early life, his participation in student exchanges in Germany, joining the Royal Air force, training, life on the station and the crash in which he died, together with air gunners Sergeant Leslie Johnson…

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A summary of the events during the operation, taken from the Operations Record Book.

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Research taken from Operations Record Books of 109 and 582 Squadrons.

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Two vertical aerial photographs of Duisberg. Two operations in 24 hours to the same location. The caption comments on the large number of ' "scarecrows" sent up by the Hun'.
Photo 1 is a daylight image with all the details obscured by explosions…

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Describes wartime service from 1939 to 1945. Joined as Halton apprentice in September 1939. Posted as fitter engine to RAF Wittering working on Wellington Hampden and Manchester aircraft. Followed by tour at RAF Upper Heyford working on Wellington…

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Seven photographs of the crew. Each man has his photograph and named captioned. A further caption refers to the loss of the Lancaster at Foret du Croc.

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Seven photographs of the crew of Lancaster ED908. Each man is captioned.

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Seven photographs of the crew of Lancaster ED908. Each man and his trade are captioned.

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Seven photographs of the eight crew of ED908. Each man is identified by name and trade.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.

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Seven photographs of the eight crew of ED908. Each man is identified by name and trade.

SKnoxRW[Ser#-DoB]v70007.jpg
Seven photographs of the eight crew of ED908. Each man is identified by name and trade.

SKnoxRW[Ser#-DoB]v80009.jpg
Seven photographs of the eight crew of ED908. Each man is identified by name and trade.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
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