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Luck of a Lancaster: 107 Operations, 244 crew, 103 killed in action

By Gordon , Thorbun

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword
Year
2013
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6649034 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

Overview: No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid April 1943. She flew her first op on the 20th, by which time No 9 had lost forty-one of their Lancs to enemy action and another five had been transferred to other squadrons and lost by them. No 9 would soon lose a further thirteen of the seventy. All of the remaining eleven would be damaged, repaired, transferred to other squadrons or training units, and lost to enemy action or crashes except for three which, in some kind of retirement, would last long enough to be scrapped after the war.

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