Description
Moral Support Avro Lancaster.
The Squadron was involved in ‘Special Duties’ ops usually carrying an extra.
German speaking operator to transmit messages designed to confuse enemy fighters trying to intercept bomber formations.
The bombers were usually given fighter escort, in this instance Spitfires, to and from these sorties.
Primary Edition prints are signed by the artist and Flt. Lt. ‘Rusty’ Waughman DFC,101 Squadron Lancaster pilot on 30 ops.
150 Prints in the Primary Edition
Double Mounted £85.00
The overall size including the mount is 21.5″ x 16”
Moral Support
Flt Lt Russell (Rusty) Waughman DFC, AFC, (Pilot)
Flt Lt Russell (Rusty) Waughman DFC, AFC, (Pilot) volunteered for the RAF in 1941. After training in Canada, he qualified as a heavy bomber pilot.
In November 1943 he was posted to No 101(Special Duties) Squadron at Ludford Magna. He completed a tour of operations, which began during the ‘Battle of Berlin’,
where they did several operations. Surviving a mid-air collision, only to write the aircraft off on landing,
‘Rusty’ and his crew on a subsequent flight had a miraculous escape when their aircraft was blown upside down, over the target,
at Mailly-le-Camp; they also survived the Nuremberg raid on 30th March 1944, when 97 aircraft were lost – including about one quarter of 101 sqn strength that night.
Moral Support Avro Lancaster.
This print comes wrapped in clear cellophane to protect the print ready to give as a gift.
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