Pen and Sword Aviation
More Luck of a Lancaster: 109 Operations, 315 Crew, 101 Killed in Action
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- Gordon Thorburn
- Pen and Sword Aviation
- Hardcover
- 9781473897663
- 9.3 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches
- 0.84 pounds
- History > Military - Aviation
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
As more came in, three of those twenty-four were transferred to a new squadron, the reforming No 189. These were EE136 (93 operations), PB146 (36 ops), and LM745 (four ops). All three saw the war out, unlike so many others. During 189 Squadron's operational period featuring EE136 (1 November 1944 to 3 February 1945) thirty-four Lancasters came on the strength of which nine were lost in that time. Over the operational lifetime of Lancaster EE136, forty-two different skippers took her on her grand total of 109 trips. Altogether, 315 men flew on ops in this machine, many of them more than once - the most 'capped' captain, F/O Roy Lake, twenty-two times - and of those men, 101 were killed in other aircraft.
Those are the statistics. But this is the story of the men behind the numbers.
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