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RMG5NT4E–Jim McGillivray, Flight Sgt. in the 115 Squadron, with pictures of himself in front of a Lancaster during the war, during celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the plane's Second World War missions, at Duxford Air Museum, Cambridgeshire. * RAF veterans criticised the Ministry of Defence's failure to recognise the achievements of Bomber Command, feeling that campaign medals should have been awarded to the crews despite the controversy caused by the number of civilians killed during the bombing raids over Germany, which are seen as a vital contribution to the Allied victory.
RMET4K21–An Avro Lancaster bomber from 35 Squadron in flight over the English countryside. 29th May 1946.
RM2TE8PK1–LANCASTER crew of 63o Squadron RAF return to their East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, base after a successful raid in mid 1944.
RM2H57E7P–WW2 LANCASTER BOMBER 1944 Avro Lancaster bomber 'S for Sugar', 467 Squadron, preparation and loading with ordnance including a ‘blockbuster bomb’ for its 97th Bombing mission. (score runs painted on fuselage) RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. UK World War II RAF Nazi Germany Bombing campaign
RMPDR71J–75 King and Queen on a visit to RAF Station Binbrook, at which No. 460 (Lancaster) Squadron RAAF is based
RM2JJG7DN–An Avro Lancaster B Mark III of No. 619 Squadron RAF based at Coningsby, Lincolnshire, in flight. A British four-engined heavy bomber adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War Two.
RMHMHCYE–My depiction of Avro Lancaster W5005, AR-L for Leader of 460 Squadron RAAF as it appeared at the end of September 1943.
RME0XM30–May 05, 1967 - ''Dam Busters'' Anniversary. Lancaster bomber Flies To Scampton. A Lancaster bomber in the wartime livery of Royal Air Force Bomber Command, made a commemorative flight from Biggin Hill, Kent, to R.A.F. Station, Scampton, Lincolnshire - home of No. 617 Squadron (''The Dam Busters'') - to mark the 24th. anniversary of the raid that breached the Mehne and Eder Dams east of the Ruhr. On board the aircraft were several ex-617 Squadron aircrew who took part in the raid, including Mr. G. Rice and Mr. W. Townsend, dams raid pilots, and Mr. D. Webb, a gunner on the raid
RM2BDTN9J–Operation CHASTISE: the attack on the Moehne, Eder and Sorpe Dams by No. 617 Squadron RAF on the night of 16/17 May 1943. A practice 10.000 lbs 'Upkeep' weapon attached to the bomb bay of Wing Commander Guy Gibson's Avro Type 464 (Provisioning) Lancaster, ED932/G 'AJ-G', at Manston, Kent, while conducting dropping trials off Reculve, May 1943
RMD50RYJ–22,000lb 'Grand Slam' falls away from an Avro Lancaster of No. 617 Squadron RAF during an attack on the viaduct at Arnsberg, Ge
RF2H7RDW3–514 Squadron RAF aircrew with their Avro Lancaster bomber. Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. March - July 1945. The crew raided Germany in March - April 1945. In May 1945 they repatriated Allied POWs, and also took part in Operation Manna food drops to The Hague, Holland.
RMDAYWKT–Fairford, UK. 20th July, 2013. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Dambuster raid on the Ruhr dams by the Avro Lancasters of 617 Squadron RAF the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster performed a memorial flypast in company with a Tornado GR4 jet serving with the present day 617 Squadron at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucstershire
RF2HRYY74–Avro Lancaster Mk I (LM130, JO-N, “Nick the Nazi Neutralizer”) of the 463rd Squadron RAAF, Waddington Air Base, Summer 1944
RM2X1M8AF–MEN OF SWINDON'S LANCASTER SQUADRON OFF ON AN OFFENSIVE - 8963 The pilot at the controls, Royal Air Force
RM2JAYHCH–Duke Of Gloucester Visits Australian Bomber Squadron In Britain - The Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General designate of the Commonwealth of Australia, had special interest in the ground staff of a famous Australian Lancaster Squadron. In a visit to their station in England he chatted with the men about their homeland where he will soon take up his appointment. October 24, 1944. (Photo by Photographic News Agencies, Ltd.)
RMB0XKM3–Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster flying over Derwent Reservoir Derbyshire England
RMD80R3C–Derwent Reservoir, Derbyshire, UK. 16th May 2013. A Lancaster bomber of the Battle of Britain flight flying low over the Derwent Reservoir, Derbyshire on 16th May 2013. This marks the 70th anniversary of the dambusters raid by 617 Squadron. Credit: Nigel Spooner / Alamy Live News
RM2M97E5T–Avro 683 Lancaster I of No 467 Squadron bombing-up-became the mainstay of RAF Bomber Command, the type entering operations in February 1942.
RMHG7W6C–George 'Johnny' Johnson, 95, holds a picture of Lancaster bombers at his home in Bristol, as the last surviving British Dambuster has said that if he received a knighthood it would be to remember his squadron and not himself.
RFWW7JC6–British World War Two Heavy Bomber Avro Lancaster PA474 of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight displays at the Royal International Air Tattoo.
RMB7NXRJ–LANCASTER Crew of a 61 Squadron aircraft return to their base at Syerston, in 1942 - see Description below for details
RM2JCYFTX–LANCASTER BOMBERS FORMATION BOMBING RUN 1940s WW2 WAR Bomber Command with Avro Lancaster Bombers in-flight en route to Nazi Germany August 1943 No. 50 Squadron, Royal Air Force, based at Skellingthorpe, flying in spread formation. World War II Second World War Great Britain UK
RM2JKX8G0–The veteran Avro Lancaster bomber 'S for Sugar', of No 467 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, is prepared for its 97th operational sortie at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, England. The 'Lancs' first saw service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it became the main aircraft for the night-time bombing campaigns that followed.
RMHMHCXJ–My depiction of Avro Lancaster W5005, AR-L for Leader of 460 Squadron RAAF as it appeared at the end of September 1943.
RME0XM2Y–May 05, 1967 - ''Dam Busters'' Anniversary. Lancaster Bomber Flies To Scampton. A Lancaster bomber in the wartime livery of Royal Air Force Bomber Command, made a commemorative flight from Biggin Hill, Kent, to R.A.F. Station, Scampton, Lincolnshire - home of No. 617 Squadron (''The Dam Busters'') - to mark the 24th. anniversary of the raid that breached the Mehne and Eder Dams east of the Ruhr. On board the aircraft were several ex-617 Squadron aircrew who took part in the raid, including Mr. G. Rise and Mr. W. Townsend, dams raid pilots and Mr. D. Webb, a gunner on the raid
RMF77K3H–World War 2 RAF bomber crew of 138 squadron bomber command with Lancaster at Tuddenham in 1945
RMD50T15–Avro Lancaster B Mk I (Special) of No. 617 Squadron, loaded with a 'Grand Slam' 22,000-lb deep-penetration bomb, running up its
RF2H7RDTW–514 Squadron RAF aircrew with their Avro Lancaster bomber. Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. March - July 1945. The crew raided Germany in March - April 1945. In May 1945 they repatriated Allied POWs, and also took part in Operation Manna food drops to The Hague, Holland.
RM2JP8W3Y–Memorial plaque honouring the crew of A Lancaster bomber that crashed at Studland Moor, missing the village of Aldborough on the 2nd February 1944
RM2X143P3–MEN OF SWINDON'S LANCASTER SQUADRON OFF ON AN OFFENSIVE - 8963 The bomber taking off Royal Air Force
RMPJR5XE–RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster pilot Squadron Leader Stuart Reid at a signing event
RMB0Y0KT–Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster flying over Derwent Reservoir Derbyshire England
RMWDHAFG–Bournemouth, UK. 29th August 2019. Up to a million people are set to descend on Bournemouth over the next four days as the 12th annual Bournemouth Air Festival gets underway. Peter, aged 87, served in the RAF ground crew for Lancaster Squadron 1948 - he reads his book before the show starts, but looking forward to seeing the planes. Credit: Carolyn Jenkins/Alamy Live News
RM2M97E4P–Avro 679 Manchester IA of No 207 Squadron - unloved and unwanted, the type was transformed into the famed Lancaster by fitting four Merlins.
RFWW7JC8–British World War Two Heavy Bomber Avro Lancaster PA474 of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight displays at the Royal International Air Tattoo.
RMHEGT5E–GUY GIBSON VC (1918-1944) third from left with 617 Squadron members beside Lancaster AJ-M which was to be lost on the Dams Raid 16 May 1944.
RM2J4T251–LANCASTER BOMBER WW2 BREMEN NAZI GERMANY RAF bombing run by Avro Lancaster of No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron flying over the smoke-covered target area during a daylight attack on the oil refinery and storage depot of the Deutsche Vacuum AG at Bremen by 133 Lancasters of No. 1 Group and 6 De Havilland Mosquitos of No. 8 Group, 21 March 1945. World War II
RM2JKX85R–Ground crews refuelling and bombing up an Avro Lancaster of No. 75 (New Zealand) Squadron RAF at Mepal, Cambridgeshire, England, for a night raid on Krefeld, Germany. The bomb load consists of a 4,000-lb HC 'cookie' and mixed 1,000-lb and 500-lb MC bombs. The 'Lancs' first saw service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it became the main aircraft for the night-time bombing campaigns that followed.
RMEN9J50–The shooting down in flames of Lancaster LM756, PG-F of No 619 Squadron RAF on 25 April 1945 over Berchtesgaden.
RMD814PH–The Lancaster Bomber of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flies low over the Derwent reservoir dam, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the raid by 617 ‘Dambusters’ Squadron on the night 16-17 May 1943.
RMD50T61–Flying Officer J Sanders DFC (third from right), and his cheerful crew of No 617 Squadron with their Lancaster, ME562/KC-K, following the successful daylight operation against the Tirpitz in Tromso Fjord in Norway on 12 November 1944.
RF2H7RDYA–514 Squadron RAF aircrew with their Avro Lancaster bomber. Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. March - July 1945. The crew signed their names on the photograph. The crew raided Germany in March - April 1945. In May 1945 they repatriated Allied POWs, and also took part in Operation Manna food drops to The Hague, Holland.
RM2X152PH–MEN OF SWINDON'S LANCASTER SQUADRON OFF ON AN OFFENSIVE - 8963 At the table - the navigator plotting his course Royal Air Force
RFKTW1C9–Avro Lancaster PA474 of Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at Royal International Air Tattoo 2017
RMB0Y806–Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster flying over Derwent Reservoir Derbyshire England
RMWDHAFD–Bournemouth, UK. 29th August 2019. Up to a million people are set to descend on Bournemouth over the next four days as the 12th annual Bournemouth Air Festival gets underway. Veteran Peter, aged 87, served in the RAF ground crew for Lancaster Squadron 1948 - he reads his book before the show starts, but looking forward to seeing the planes. Credit: Carolyn Jenkins/Alamy Live News
RM2M96XF2–A line up of Avro Lancaster Is at Gravely, Huntingdonshire. These aircraft from No35 (Madras) Squadron had just returned from a 15,000 mile goodwill tour of the USA.
RMG64BF7–An artist's impression of Lancaster bombers from the RAF's No 617 Squadron attacking the Moehne dam in Nazi Germany using one of Barnes Wallis's bouncing bombs during the historic 'Dambusters' raid on May 17, 1943. Today at RAF Marham in Norfolk the Queen mother presented a new Standard to the squadron.
RF2GH70KR–Avro Lancaster Bomber 'Just Jane' NX611, of the type used by the Dambusters that carried the 'Bouncing Bomb'
RM2R91HK5–AVRO LANCASTER Three B.1 variants of RAF 44 Squadron based at Waddington, Lincolnshire, on 29 September 1942. Left to right: W4125,`KM-W', being flown by Sergeant Colin Watt, Royal Australian Air Force; W4162,`KM-Y', flown by Pilot Officer T.G. Hackney (later killed while serving with No. 83 Squadron); and W4187,`KM-S', flown by Pilot Officer J.D.V.S. Stephens DFM, who was killed with his crew two nights later during a raid on Wismar.. Photo: IWM
RM2J4T599–DAMBUSTERS BOUNCING BOMB Operation CHASTISE: The attack on the Moehne, Eder and Sorpe Dams by No. 617 Squadron RAF on the night of 16/17 May 1943. No. 617 Squadron practice rehearse low altitude dropping the 'Bouncing Bomb' weapon using a Lancaster Bomber aircraft at Reculver bombing range, Kent. UK World War II Second World War WW2. My father 'Stanley Shaw' was part of the design team with Barnes Wallis.
RM2JJG7K2–Avro Lancaster B Mark I, R5620 of No. 83 Squadron RAF, leads the queue of aircraft waiting to take off from Scampton, Lincolnshire, on the 'Thousand-Bomber' raid to Bremen, Germany. This British four-engined heavy bomber was the only aircraft to be lost by the Squadron that night.
RMEN9J51–The shooting down in flames of Lancaster LM756, PG-F of No 619 Squadron RAF on 25 April 1945 over Berchtesgaden.
RF2ANYCW9–London. England. 2017. Royal Air Force Museum British Lancaster bomber used during World War Two for carpet bombing
RMD50TGD–Operation CHASTISE: the attack on the Moehne, Eder and Sorpe Dams by No. 617 Squadron RAF on the night of 16/17 May 1943. A practice 10.000 lbs 'Upkeep' weapon attached to the bomb bay of Wing Commander Guy Gibson's Avro Type 464 (Provisioning) Lancaster,
RF2H7RDWF–The personnel of 514 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Pictured with an Avro Lancaster bomber and its hangar. Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, England. 1945. The squadron was formed in September 1943 and disbanded in August 1945. Post-war they flew food supplies to Holland as part of Operation Manna, and repatriated Allied POWs from Juvincourt, France.
RMKKH3YD–RAF and Royal Canadian Air Force World War II memorial. In memory to the air crew of a Lancaster bomber which crashed near the village of Plungar UK
RM2X1MJ6R–MEN OF SWINDON'S LANCASTER SQUADRON OFF ON AN OFFENSIVE - 8963 Final briefing in front of one of the bombers, Royal Air Force
RM2JPTNFP–Operation CHASTISE: the attack on the Moehne, Eder and Sorpe Dams by No. 617 Squadron RAF on the night of 16/17 May 1943. A practice 10.000 lbs 'Upkeep' weapon attached to the bomb bay of Wing Commander Guy Gibson's Avro Type 464 (Provisioning) Lancaster, ED932/G 'AJ-G', at Manston, Kent, while conducting dropping trials off Reculver.
RMJGR70G–RNAS Yeovilton, United Kingdom, 8th July 2017, The Battle of Britain Memorial Flights Avro Lancaster PA 474 made her first public appearance at Yeovilton after her 9 months of Major Maintenance at Duxford where she has also received a new livery her port side is owns now adorned with the colours of 460 squadron Royal Australian Air Force AR-L for Leader which flew from RAF Binbrook from 1943 until she was lost after being brought down by flack with the loss of her crew whilst attacking V-1 sites in France on the 3rd Auguat 1944, and a scheme representing an RAF Waddington based 50 squadron
RM2M3K2E6–Aerial photograph showing the Eder Dam and reservoir after it had been breached by the RAF 'Lancaster' bombers of 617 Squadron during the 'Dambuster' Raid of 16 May 1943. Date: 1943
RMMNCTE0–Johnny Johnson, the last survivor of the original Dambusters of 617 Squadron, walks under the wing of an Avro Lancaster Bomber as he arrives with his grandson at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.
RMF81P3X–THE ATTACK BEGINS IN THE FACTORY 1943 British poster designed by Roy Nockolds (1911-1979). The nearest Lancaster carries the RA code for No100 Squadron RAF who were equipped with the Lancaster from March 1943.
RM2H6XJW9–LANCASTER BOMBER NIGHT RAID Archive WW2 Avro Lancaster bomber Mk III of No.103 Squadron Bomber Command on the dramatic misty flarepath runway at RAF Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire, before taking off for a night bombing raid on Duisburg, 26 March 1943. during the Battle of the Ruhr. To the runway side are three searchlights forming a point to indicate height of prevailing mist fog and cloud base. RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968. Along with United States Army Air Forces, it played the very brave central role in strategic bombing of Nazi Germany
RM2JK1DTN–The navigator on an Avro Lancaster B Mark III from No. 619 Squadron RAF seated at his table in the aircraft. The 'Lancs' first saw service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it became the main aircraft for the night-time bombing campaigns that followed.
RMEN9K2G–Two specially adapted Lancaster bombers, Type 464 (Provisioning), with bouncing bombs, as flown by 617 Squadron, the Dambusters.
RF2A1A5F5–Avro Lancaster 'LEADER' B.11 PA474. one of only 2 surviving airworthy Lancaster's in the world today
RMD50T78–Wing Commander J B Tait, Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron RAF (fifth from left), standing with his crew by the tail of their Avro Lancaster B Mark I (Special), EE146 'KC-D', at Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, on returning from Lossiemouth, the day after
RF2R826C3–PA474, Lancaster B.I of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight displays at the Shuttleworth Around the World Air Show June 2023
RMKKH488–RAF and Royal Canadian Air Force World War II memorial. In memory to the air crew of a Lancaster bomber which crashed near the village of Plungar UK
RME6C9D6–Royal International Air Tattoo 2014 Avro Lancaster of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
RM2X1M6HP–MEN OF SWINDON'S LANCASTER SQUADRON OFF ON AN OFFENSIVE - 8963 The bomb aimer and the navigator checking the bomb load, Royal Air Force
RM2GKBE1F–Digital multi-media art illustration of Lancaster bomber silhouette breaking through clouds. Dambusters WWII bomber. Nostalgic image, suit book cover.
RMD9W1Y1–A memorial wall depicting the breaching of the dams dedicated to the memory of those from the famous 617 Sqn RAF, the Dambusters. Lancaster flypast
RMJGR70D–RNAS Yeovilton, United Kingdom, 8th July 2017, The Battle of Britain Memorial Flights Avro Lancaster PA 474 made her first public appearance at Yeovilton after her 9 months of Major Maintenance at Duxford where she has also received a new livery her port side is owns now adorned with the colours of 460 squadron Royal Australian Air Force AR-L for Leader which flew from RAF Binbrook from 1943 until she was lost after being brought down by flack with the loss of her crew whilst attacking V-1 sites in France on the 3rd Auguat 1944, and a scheme representing an RAF Waddington based 50 squadron
RM2M3K2E2–Contour map of the Westphalia region of Germany, with the positions of the Sorpe, Mohne and Eder Dams marked. These were the dams attacked by British RAF Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron during the Dambuster Raid of 16 May 1943. The map shows how the area was affected by the breaching of the dams. Date: 1943
RMG6B18G–Lancaster Bombers (Dam busters Squadron). (From left) Archie Johnstone, Bob Knight, Les Munro. The Lancaster bombers, including pilot Les Munro from New Zealand looking through pictures from one of the many Lancaster Bombers.
RME6JD3C–Tornado, Spitfire and Lancaster Bomber aircraft at RAF Scampton, Lincs., for the sunset memorial service, 16-May-2013.
RM2BH74FD–MÖHNE DAM breached by Lancaster bombers from RAF 617 Squadron during Operation Chastise 16-17 May 1943. Reconnaissance photo by F/O Jerry Fray 542 Squadron from his Spitfire PR IX. Note barrage balloons above dam.
RM2J4T58D–DAMBUSTERS Operation CHASTISE: the attack on the Moehne, Eder and Sorpe Dams by No. 617 Squadron RAF on the night of 16/17 May 1943. No. 617 Squadron practice dropping the 'Bouncing Bomb' weapon at Reculver bombing range, Kent. A group of observers watches as the bomb bounces toward the shoreline. Dr Barnes Wallis the inventor, on the extreme left of the group, can be seen urging the bomb on with raised arm. WW2 World War II Second World War
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