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Items Signed by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham GCB CBE DFC AFC FRAeS (deceased) |
  | Clipped Signature - Sir Michael Beetham. Price : £40.00 | Flew Lancasters with No.50 Sqn from 1943, completing 30 missions despite enormous losses on raids to Berlin and Nuremberg. Post war he commanded No.214 Sqn flying the Vickers Valiant and was instrumental in developing air-to-air refuelling. He ret...... | |
  | Black Buck One by Keith Woodcock. (C) Price : £220.00 | The longest ever bombing mission, 30th April - 1st May 1982. Vulcan B2 XM607 of 44 sqn prepares to refuel from Victor K2 XH672 of 57 sqn on its return from bombing Port Stanley Airport on the Falklands. ...... | |
  | Band of Brothers by Robert Taylor. SOLD OUT | The mighty Lancaster, the mainstay of RAF Bomber Command, crewed by volunteers from Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia, South Africa, and many other nations opposed to Nazi rule, flew day and night sorties whenever there was a chance ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| | Band of Brothers by Robert Taylor (AP) SOLD OUT | The mighty Lancaster, the mainstay of RAF Bomber Command, crewed by volunteers from Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia, South Africa, and many other nations opposed to Nazi rule, flew day and night sorties whenever there was a chance ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| | Band of Brothers by Robert Taylor (B) SOLD OUT | The mighty Lancaster, the mainstay of RAF Bomber Command, crewed by volunteers from Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia, South Africa, and many other nations opposed to Nazi rule, flew day and night sorties whenever there was a chance ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
  | A Winters Dawn by Philip West. (AP) Price : £225.00 | This peaceful scene at East Kirkby in the winter of 1944 gives a very real feel for the vitally important work undertaken by ground crew in all weathers. At this stage of the war, to help identification at a distance, the tail fins of 57-squadron La...... | |
  | Alone at Dawn by Gerald Coulson. Price : £210.00 | Heavily damaged by flak and with one engine out, a Lancaster slowly makes its way home far behind the main force. ...... | |
| | Alone at Dawn by Gerald Coulson (AP) Price : £280.00 | Heavily damaged by flak and with one engine out, a Lancaster slowly makes its way home far behind the main force....... | |
| | Alone at Dawn by Gerald Coulson (B) Price : £300.00 | Heavily damaged by flak and with one engine out, a Lancaster slowly makes its way home far behind the main force ...... | |
| | Alone at Dawn by Gerald Coulson. (XX) Price : £150.00 | Heavily damaged by flak and with one engine out, a Lancaster slowly makes its way home far behind the main force. ...... |
  | Valiant, The Last Valiant by Michael Rondot. Price : £75.00 | The Vickers Valiant was the first four jet bomber of Britains Cold War nuclear strike V-Force whos Valiants, Victors and Vulcans, painted in distinctive anti-flash white, were a familiar sight in the 1950s & 1960s. Widely regarded as the best looking...... | |
| | Valiant, The Last Valiant by Michael Rondot (AP) Price : £120.00 | The Vickers Valiant was the first four jet bomber of Britains Cold War nuclear strike V-Force whos Valiants, Victors and Vulcans, painted in distinctive anti-flash white, were a familiar sight in the 1950s & 1960s. Widely regarded as the best looking...... |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham GCB CBE DFC AFC FRAeS (deceased) |
 | Lancaster Bomber Prints by Stephen Brown and Gerald Coulson. Pack Price : £270.00 Saving : £240 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Welcome Home by Stephen Brown. Alone at Dawn by Gerald Coulson. |
| Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham GCB CBE DFC AFC FRAeS Squadron details |
| Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham GCB CBE DFC AFC FRAeS 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. |
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