Vickers machine gun crew of "A" Company, 2nd Middlesex Regiment, 3rd Division at the commune of Grubbenvorst, Holland, 6 kms north-west of the city of Venlo, near the German border; 13 January 1945.


Machine gun outpost

Famous image of Avro Lancaster III (ED592), on it's maiden test flight dated 26th August 1942. She was later delivered to No. 50 RAF at Skellingthrorpe, and designated the letters VN-B.

She would be shot down on the 2nd March 1943 on a mission to bomb Berlin, reportedly by night fighter pilot Oblt Horst Pause of the 1./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Gilze-Rijen airfield.

Badly crippled the Lancaster crash Wadenoyen sw of Tiel, killing all the crew:

Pilot F/O. F.E. Townsend
Flight engineer Sgt. A. Sandow
Navigator Sgt. H. Wood
Nav ba Sgt. W.C. Yetton
Wo ag Sgt. D.G. Hobbs
Air gunner Sgt. P.J. Rose
Air gunner Sgt. W.A. Dawe

Photographer: Charles E. Brown.
Image Credit: Authors Personal Collection (Via RAF Museum).
Image Repair & Colourisation - Nathan Howland @HowdiColourWorks.
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 Avro Lancaster III (ED592)

British soldiers examine an abandoned German 50mm anti-tank gun position; France, 1 July 1944.
