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Items Signed by Squadron Leader Ron Curtis DSO DFC (deceased) |
  | Clipped Signature - Ron Curtis. Price : £35.00 | Flew Hampdens with No.144 Sqn then became a Navigator on Lancasters with No.44 Sqn. Converted to the Mosquito from 1943 and flew 139 operations with No.109 Sqn Pathfinder Force. ...... | |
  | Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (AP) Price : £135.00 | Completing a record 213 operational sorties with Bomber Commands Pathfinder Force, Mosquito LR503 became one of the most successful aircraft in the Royal Air Force during World War II. It flew first with 109 Pathfinder Squadron, and then 105 Pathfin...... | |
| | Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (B) Price : £120.00 | Completing a record 213 operational sorties with Bomber Commands Pathfinder Force, Mosquito LR503 became one of the most successful aircraft in the Royal Air Force during World War II. It flew first with 109 Pathfinder Squadron, and then 105 Pathfin...... | |
| | Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (C) Price : £265.00 | Completing a record 213 operational sorties with Bomber Commands Pathfinder Force, Mosquito LR503 became one of the most successful aircraft in the Royal Air Force during World War II. It flew first with 109 Pathfinder Squadron, and then 105 Pathfin...... | |
  | Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson (B) Price : £595.00 | Up to 1942 Bomber Command operations were beset by many problems. The means they had to accurately pinpoint the target and assault it were totally lacking, in fact their Commander in Chief, Air Marshall Arthur Harris later wrote : It was glaringly ob...... |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Squadron Leader Ron Curtis DSO DFC (deceased) |
     | Mosquito Cres Tribute Aviation Print Pack. Pack Price : £280.00 Saving : £355 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (B) Night Intruder by Robert Taylor. Return From Leipzig by Anthony Saunders. (E) A De Havilland Beauty by Ivan Berryman. Sunday Afternoon by Geoffrey R Herickx. Those Nagging Mosquitoes by Stan Stokes. | |
 | Pack 509. Pack of two WW2 De Havelland Mosquito prints by Robert Taylor and Nicolas Trudgian. Pack Price : £210.00 Saving : £220 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (B) Mosquitos at Dusk by Nicolas Trudgian. Sunday Afternoon by Geoffrey R Herickx. Those Nagging Mosquitoes by Stan Stokes. | |
| | Pilot Signed Mosquito Aircraft Art Prints by Robert Taylor and Ivan Berryman. Pack Price : £180.00 Saving : £180 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (B) A De Havilland Beauty by Ivan Berryman. Those Nagging Mosquitoes by Stan Stokes. | |
| | RAF Mosquito Aviation Art Prints by Robert Taylor and Anthony Saunders. Pack Price : £160.00 Saving : £115 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (B) Return From Leipzig by Anthony Saunders. (E) Those Nagging Mosquitoes by Stan Stokes. | |
| | Mosquito Aviation Art Prints by Robert Taylor. Pack Price : £185.00 Saving : £105 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (B) Night Intruder by Robert Taylor. Those Nagging Mosquitoes by Stan Stokes. |
 | De Havilland Mosquito Aviation Art Prints by Robert Taylor and Ivan Berryman. Pack Price : £145.00 Saving : £95 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (B) A Moment's Peace by Ivan Berryman. (C) Those Nagging Mosquitoes by Stan Stokes. | |
    | Special Sale Pack of 5 Prints - 4 FREE! Pack Price : £145.00 Saving : £205 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (AP) The Struggle for Malta by Ivan Berryman. (F) LCT 312 by Ivan Berryman. (D) Typhoons Over Normandy by Ivan Berryman. (D) Dinah Might by Ivan Berryman. | |
 | Robert Taylor Mosquito Aircraft Print Pack Pack Price : £165.00 Saving : £95 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Mosquito into Attack by Robert Taylor Top Dog by Robert Taylor. (B) |
| Squadron Leader Ron Curtis DSO DFC Squadron details |
| Squadron Leader Ron Curtis DSO DFC Aircraft details |
 Lancaster Manufacturer : Avro Built : 7377 | Lancaster The Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' "Operation Gomorrah" in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992. |
 Mosquito Manufacturer : De Havilland Built : 7781 | Mosquito Used as a night fighter, fighter bomber, bomber and Photo-reconnaissance, with a crew of two, Maximum speed was 425 mph, at 30,300 feet, 380mph at 17,000ft. and a ceiling of 36,000feet, maximum range 3,500 miles. the Mosquito was armed with four 20mm Hospano cannon in belly and four .303 inch browning machine guns in nose. Coastal strike aircraft had eight 3-inch Rockets under the wings, and one 57mm shell gun in belly. The Mossie at it was known made its first flight on 25th November 1940, and the mosquito made its first operational flight for the Royal Air Force as a reconnaissance unit based at Benson. In early 1942, a modified version (mark II) operated as a night fighter with 157 and 23 squadron's. In April 1943 the first De Haviland Mosquito saw service in the Far east and in 1944 The Mosquito was used at Coastal Command in its strike wings. Bomber Commands offensive against Germany saw many Mosquitos, used as photo Reconnaissance aircraft, Fighter Escorts, and Path Finders. The Mosquito stayed in service with the Royal Air Force until 1955. and a total of 7781 mosquito's were built. |
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