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Description: Three Avro Lancaster B.Is of No. 44 Squadron, Royal Air Force, based at Waddington, Lincolnshire (UK), flying above the clouds. Left to right: W4125,`KM-W', being flown by Sergeant Colin Watt, Royal Australian Air Force; W4162,`KM-Y', flown by Pilot Officer T.G. Hackney (later killed while serving with No. 83 Squadron); and W4187,`KM-S', flown by Pilot Officer J.D.V.S. Stephens DFM, who was killed with his crew two nights later during a raid on Wismar.
Title: Lancaster B MkI 44 Sqn RAF in flight 1942
Credit: This is photograph TR 197 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: Royal Air Force official photographer
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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