This is a aluminium airframe section with black camouflage paintwork with fuselage red insignia paintwork remains The part has been nicely cleaned and retains most of its original colours it has been mounted in to a glass fronted box frame with plane and crash information and pictures the frame is 9 half inches by 9 half inches in size. This is a very rare find relic from a Lancaster bomber. This airframe part comes from RAF Lancaster Mark I Number NG447 GI-U from number 622 Squadron the plane was shot down on the 9th April 1945 attacking kiel Harbour and sinking battleship Admiral Scheer.
RAF Lancaster Mark I Number NG447 GI-U from number 622 Squadron the plane was shot down on the 9th April 1945. By German night fighter attacking kiel Harbour and sinking battleship Admiral Scheer.
The Lancaster took off from RAF Mildenhall at 19.34pm part of a 300 bomber raid on Kiel Harbour the resulting operation caused severe damage to the yard and buildings and also hit by five tallboy bombs
and capsized the battleship Admiral Scheer. The Lancaster was shot down at 22.40pm and crashed at Dorphof 6km SSE of Kappeln near Kiel. The crew F/L L.A.S Hodge, F/S S.G Taylor, F/S W.M.L Green RCAF, F/O
G.W Gell RCAF, F/O A.S Seymour, SGT W.E Lewis, SGT W.A Parsons.A ll were killed apart from W.E Lewis was taken prisoner. All the crew that were killed are buried in Kiel war cemetery.
This is a aluminium airframe section with black camouflage paintwork with fuselage red insignia paintwork remains The part has been nicely cleaned and retains most of its original colours it has been mounted in to a glass fronted box frame with plane and crash information and pictures the frame is 9 half inches by 9 half inches in size. This is a very rare find relic from a Lancaster bomber. This airframe part comes from RAF Lancaster Mark I Number NG447 GI-U from number 622 Squadron the plane was shot down on the 9th April 1945 attacking kiel Harbour and sinking battleship Admiral Scheer.
RAF Lancaster Mark I Number NG447 GI-U from number 622 Squadron the plane was shot down on the 9th April 1945. By German night fighter attacking kiel Harbour and sinking battleship Admiral Scheer.
The Lancaster took off from RAF Mildenhall at 19.34pm part of a 300 bomber raid on Kiel Harbour the resulting operation caused severe damage to the yard and buildings and also hit by five tallboy bombs
and capsized the battleship Admiral Scheer. The Lancaster was shot down at 22.40pm and crashed at Dorphof 6km SSE of Kappeln near Kiel. The crew F/L L.A.S Hodge, F/S S.G Taylor, F/S W.M.L Green RCAF, F/O
G.W Gell RCAF, F/O A.S Seymour, SGT W.E Lewis, SGT W.A Parsons.A ll were killed apart from W.E Lewis was taken prisoner. All the crew that were killed are buried in Kiel war cemetery.
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