Author: Gary Edgecombe

A ‘friendly’ bomb strike! 😕

Name the aircraft?

Avro ‘Manchester’ I

Hawker Typhoon

Short Sunderland Mk’s I, II, & III

Short Sunderland ‘on the step’ and about to take off

The Avro York was, like its Lancaster and Lincoln stablemates, a versatile aircraft.

‘Commando,’ a VLR (very long range) heavily modified Consolidated Liberator II, and Prime Minister Winston…

The De Havilland ‘Mosquito’ in various flavours……

Battle damage

A B24 Liberator ‘gets the chop’ somewhere over Belgium, Autumn 1944.

De Havilland Mosquito in Coastal Command livery

Avro Lancaster BI and BIII

No caption required for this one!!

Vickers ‘Wellington’ medium bomber.

Delivering Mussolini’s groceries!

Even the best aero engine of WW2, the Rolls Royce Merlin, needed regular servicing!

Another trip chalked up!

Following a test flight, the skipper of a Lancaster BI discusses an issue with the starboard inner Merlin engine, as…

Avro Lancaster BIII

This B17G Fortress was extremely fortunate to make it home!

Handley Page Halifax

A Lancaster BI that barely made it back to RAF Fiskerton in early 1943.

Avro Lincoln

Group Captain Leonard Cheshire. OM, DSO and 2 bars, DFC. Victoria Cross

A slightly scuffed Lancaster BI that took an early bath just 2 miles from home, RAF Downham Market, in November 1942.

An Avro Lancaster BIII peacefully retired in Duxford museum.

Lancaster BIII ‘Just Jane’ ….enjoying the sunshine!

RAF Bomber Command ‘Pathfinder’ Lancasters seldom got old enough to scrap!

Handley Page Halifax III

Group Captain Peter Townsend; DSO, DFC & Bar

Group Captain Adolf ‘Sailor’ Malan (South Africa)

Avro Lancaster BIII.

Lucky to get home!

Short Stirling III

Bristol ‘Beaufighter’

Avro Lancaster BI ED593 ZN-Y ‘Admiral Prune II’

VICKERS ‘WARWICK’

‘AVRO MANCHESTER’

Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, & four of the crew of Lancaster ED932/G (G George) a few months after the famous Dams…

Air Vice Marshal James Edgar (Johnnie) Johnson; CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & 2 Bars

A Mosquito FB VI of 464 Sqn R.A.A.F. crash landed at Friston emergency airfield, Sussex, in February 1944.

The awesome De Havilland Mosquito night fighter variant.

An early (interim) Handley Page Halifax BII powered by 4 Bristol Hercules engines, due to a shortage of the usual…

Any amateur student of WW2 aviation has their heroes, I’m no different, here are mine!