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More luck of a Lancaster : 109 operations, 315 crew, 101 killed in action
- Title
- More luck of a Lancaster : 109 operations, 315 crew, 101 killed in action / Gordon Thorburn.
- Author
- Thorburn, Gordon
- Publication
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- viii, 167 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles; 24 cm
- Summary
- "From 11 June 1941, the date of Lancaster Mark III EE136 WS/R's very first up, to her last with 9 Squadron (on 19 October 1944), eighty-six Lancasters were assigned to Number 9. Of these, fifty were lost to enemy action, another five crashed at home, three crashed in Russia on the first Tirpitz raid and four were transferred to other squadrons only to be lost by them, leaving just twenty-four still flying. 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. Over the operational lifetime of Lancaster EE136, forty-two different skippers took her on a 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."--Book jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Preface: Captain's luck -- 1. Her name was Robert -- 2. Who were those men? -- 3. The Lyon months -- 4. How to finish a tour -- 5. The road to Berlin -- 6. A change of course -- 7. 76 to 93 in 11 weeks -- 8. She wasn't done yet -- Appendix: All the men of Lancaster Mark III EE136 -- Roll of honour.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-812
- ISBN
- 9781473897663
- 1473897661
- OCLC
- 973919880
- Author
- Thorburn, Gordon, author.
- Title
- More luck of a Lancaster : 109 operations, 315 crew, 101 killed in action / Gordon Thorburn.
- Publisher
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-812