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YouTube - Lancaster 'S for Sugar" 100th mission (Silent)



Lancaster R5868 ‘S’ for Sugar of 467 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, taxies in at RAF Waddington on the morning of 27 April, 1944, having completed her 95th operation, a raid on the ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany.
BAND OF BROTHERS - THE RAAF AIRCREW EDITION
Sporting on her fuselage Goering’s infamous quotation
“No enemy plane will fly over the Reich territory….”
‘S’ for Sugar went on to complete 137 operational sorties. This famous bomber, restored to her former glory, now resides in the RAF Museum as a lasting tribute to the men of RAF Bomber Command.
Just 100 copies of Robert Taylor’s limited edition, Band of Brothers, are signed by signed by EIGHTEEN Royal Australian Air Force aircrew including SEVEN distinguished pilots who flew R5868 S for Sugar during their tours with 467 Sqn RAAF, 1943-1945:-
Flying Officer LAURIE W BAKER – 7 sorties
Flight Lieutenant JACK A COLPUS DFC – 4 sorties
Flight Lieutenant MAXWELL G JOHNSON – 5 sorties
Squadron Leader FRANK LAWRENCE DFC DFM – 2 sorties
Flight Lieutenant WILLIAM M KYNOCH DFC – 1 sortie
Squadron Leader THOMAS N SCHOLEFIELD DFC* - 4 sorties
Squadron Leader GORDON H STEWART DFC AFC –1 sortie
Flight Lieutenant A REG T BOYS DFC – 8 sorties
Warrant Officer GRAHAM J COLLINS – 6 sorties
Pilot Officer HAROLD H LEACH – 1 sortie
Warrant Officer DAVID MORLAND DFM – 1 sortie
Flying Officer NEVILLE J MORRISON – 1 sortie
Flying Officer JOHN W NEDWICH DFC – 1 sortie
Flying Officer ROY L PEGLER – 1 sortie
Warrant Officer RAYMOND O SAYER DFM – 6 sorties
Flying Officer LESLIE C VAUGHAN – 9 sorties
Warrant Officer PAUL E VERTIGAN – 3 sorties
Flying Officer ALBERT WALLACE – 6 sorties

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Nice call, David - this has certainly produced some interesting material.

 

Look at the rust on the trailer carrying the bomb!

How could you tell she was a redhead?

 

How could you tell she was a redhead?

Now now spidge!

 

Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, May 1944. Members of the ground crews of No 460 Squadron RAAF at their RAF Station, in front of "G for George" the squadron's famous Avro Lancaster bomber, after the aircraft had been taken off operational flying in April 1944. A total of 90 operational missions had been flown. (Image provided by AWM)

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And at the AWM in Canberra

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Here is another 460 Squadron Lancaster, AR-A2 "Aussie" pictured with Australian personnel.

 

David
I thought this thread was as good a place as any to tell again the story of Lancaster RF154 from 166 Squadron. The article is by my nephew and first appeared in the BBC WW2 Archives.
BBC - WW2 People's War - The night my father was killed in action
Ron

 

Nice post Ron.

 

Lancaster at Bourn being bombed up.

 

Another 97 Squadron aircraft at Bourn. This aircraft is EE176 survived 120 operations and ended up with B.O.A.C.

 

EE 176 again

 

This one is R 5548 OF A. This Lancaster bore the signature of HM Queen Elizabeth in a card on the nose section, hence the aircraft being known as Q-Queenie despite bearing the callsign A-Alpha. This aircraft crashed 28/12/1942.

 

This is Lancaster is PB410 OF-J with her two port engines feathered. This aircraft survived the war and ended up being scrapped.

 

The sad demise of Q-Queenie, destroyed at Woodhall Spa on 28th December 1942 when a photoflash exploded inside the aircraft, killing the armourer, AC2 Aubrey Taylor.

 

This one is R 5548 OF A. This Lancaster bore the signature of HM Queen Elizabeth in a card on the nose section, hence the aircraft being known as Q-Queenie despite bearing the callsign A-Alpha. This aircraft crashed 28/12/1942.


I think this aircraft was was SOC in non operational event on the said date while the squadron was based at Woodhall Spa

Lancaster R 5648 "Elizabeth" was built at the Yeadon Shadow Factory and was on the production track when the King and Queen visited the factory on 20 March 1942.The Queen named the aircraft "Elizabeth" on this occasion.

The aircraft is recorded to have met its end like so many, a victim at dispersal due the ignition of one of its photographic flashes.

Point added concurrent with David's update

 

David

Thanks for your remarks.

Here is another photo of Jack, in his turret, taken over Essen by another member of the crew.
Regrettably I cannot quote the source as it was one of a set of photos given to me by Ted Hull, yet another crew member, and lovely Ted is no longer with us.

As I mentioned earlier, the article about the actual loss of the aircraft was written by my nephew Michael. What I should have also mentioned is the fact that Michael, despite losing his father so tragically when he was so very young, went on to become, by sheer guts and determination, Vice Chancellor of Coventry University and to be rewarded with the OBE for Services to Higher Education.

 

There is certainly something about the Lancaster; one flew over my house in Kent a couple of months ago; quite something.



Some great pictures there guys. Just a thought about the above pictures: There's that many bombs falling there that surely some of them must have banged against each other and exploded mid-air? Anybody know if this would have happened or were they designed so that this wouldn't happen?

cheers

 

Lancaster GRV - RE186
School of Maritime Reconnaissance.

 

Some great pictures there guys. Just a thought about the above pictures: There's that many bombs falling there that surely some of them must have banged against each other and exploded mid-air? Anybody know if this would have happened or were they designed so that this wouldn't happen?


cheers

Ok what you looking at here ion ther left is chaff. Foil strips to reflect a lot of radar energy and hide aircraft. Im not well up on the subject but the lenght of the strips is vital and related to the wavelenght of the offending rader. Something to do with reflecting back the carrier signal out of phase and ruining the radar return. Still used today.

THe shot on the right is I think a 4000lb blockbuster and a large drop of incenderries. The incenderies buirn very hot and cause fires whereby the blockbuster is a huge thinly cased blast bomb designed not bury itself like a conventional cased bomb but to explode on impact, blasting the fire into a great storm, that caused so much damage to Dresden and Hamburg.

Bombs normally dont explode untill they are armed, that is usually done by some sort of mechncial device that places the detonator into a postion it can explode the man charge, This is normally a little propeler on the front of the case, so the bomb must be falling straight for some degree of time before it is armed , once all the bombs are armed and pressumably falling stright then the chances of hitting each other very small. This is some evidence that the bombs may have hit other aircraft on some occaisions.

if the bomb is dropped to low the propellor wont fully arm the bomb and it does not explode.

Hope this helps.

Kev

 

Can you see the little propeller that wind the fuse and set the detonator.

Go to the library and get some books about bomb disposal. Some good ones out there. Gripping stuff.