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Items Signed by Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO DFC RNZAF (deceased) |
| Inbound to Target - The Dambusters by Robert Taylor. Price : £135.00 | The crews of 617 Squadron that took part in the epic Dambusters raid on the night of 16/17 May 1943 were among the finest in the RAF. They were the elite of Bomber Command, and when they left RAF Scampton that night, the skills of their pilots - som...... | |
| Inbound to Target - The Dambusters by Robert Taylor. (AP) SOLD OUT | The crews of 617 Squadron that took part in the epic Dambusters raid on the night of 16/17 May 1943 were among the finest in the RAF. They were the elite of Bomber Command, and when they left RAF Scampton that night, the skills of their pilots - som...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Inbound to Target - The Dambusters by Robert Taylor. (B) SOLD OUT | The crews of 617 Squadron that took part in the epic Dambusters raid on the night of 16/17 May 1943 were among the finest in the RAF. They were the elite of Bomber Command, and when they left RAF Scampton that night, the skills of their pilots - som...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| The Dambusters by Gerald Coulson. (B) SOLD OUT | Mick Martin's Lancaster pulls away from the Möhne Dam, his Upkeep bomb exploding behind him sending a huge plume of water into the air. Guy Gibson flies to his right drawing flak from the anti-aircraft guns on the towers. ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| The Dambusters by Gerald Coulson. (C) SOLD OUT | Mick Martin's Lancaster pulls away from the Möhne Dam, his Upkeep bomb exploding behind him sending a huge plume of water into the air. Guy Gibson flies to his right drawing flak from the anti-aircraft guns on the towers. ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson. (AP) SOLD OUT | With the familiar Lincolnshire countryside beckoning, a Lancaster of the famous 617 Dambusters Squadron, makes its final approach after a raid on Germany, late summer 1944. Gerald Coulsons painting Summer Harvest winds the clock back sixty years, re...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson. (B) Price : £230.00 | With the familiar Lincolnshire countryside beckoning, a Lancaster of the famous 617 Dambusters Squadron, makes its final approach after a raid on Germany, late summer 1944. Gerald Coulsons painting Summer Harvest winds the clock back sixty years, re...... | |
| Dambusters - The Impossible Mission by Robert Taylor. (AP) SOLD OUT | Dinghy Young, flying Lancaster AJ-A, heading through flak and machine gun fire towards the Mohne Dam at precisely 60ft, has just released his cylindrical, hydrostatically-triggered bouncing bomb - clearly visible against the huge splash created as i...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Dambusters - The Impossible Mission by Robert Taylor. (B) SOLD OUT | Dinghy Young, flying Lancaster AJ-A, heading through flak and machine gun fire towards the Mohne Dam at precisely 60ft, has just released his cylindrical, hydrostatically-triggered bouncing bomb - clearly visible against the huge splash created as i...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Dambusters - The Impossible Mission by Robert Taylor. (C) SOLD OUT | Dinghy Young, flying Lancaster AJ-A, heading through flak and machine gun fire towards the Mohne Dam at precisely 60ft, has just released his cylindrical, hydrostatically-triggered bouncing bomb - clearly visible against the huge splash created as it...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Dambusters - The Impossible Mission by Robert Taylor. (D) SOLD OUT | SOLD OUT. ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Dambusters - Breaching the Eder Dam by Robert Taylor. (AP) Price : £440.00 | Mist and fog swirled eerily over the Eder Lake on the night of 16/17 May 1943 as four specially modified Lancasters of 617 Squadron, under the leadership of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, circled overhead. Their target, the mighty Eder Dam, was barely ...... | |
| Dambusters - Breaching the Eder Dam by Robert Taylor. (B) Price : £275.00 | Mist and fog swirled eerily over the Eder Lake on the night of 16/17 May 1943 as four specially modified Lancasters of 617 Squadron, under the leadership of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, circled overhead. Their target, the mighty Eder Dam, was barely ...... | |
| Dambusters - Breaching the Eder Dam by Robert Taylor. (C) SOLD OUT | Mist and fog swirled eerily over the Eder Lake on the night of 16/17 May 1943 as four specially modified Lancasters of 617 Squadron, under the leadership of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, circled overhead. Their target, the mighty Eder Dam, was barely ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Dambusters - Breaching the Eder Dam by Robert Taylor. (GS) SOLD OUT | Mist and fog swirled eerily over the Eder Lake on the night of 16/17 May 1943 as four specially modified Lancasters of 617 Squadron, under the leadership of Wing Commander Guy Gibson, circled overhead. Their target, the mighty Eder Dam, was barely ...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Breaching the Möhne by Anthony Saunders. Price : £195.00 | The Dambusters - Target X. Twenty minutes had passed and three Lancasters had attacked but there was still no sign of a breach in the Möhne Dam, the first of three primary targets for the newly-formed elite 617 Squadron under the command of ...... | |
| Breaching the Möhne by Anthony Saunders. (AP) Price : £295.00 | The Dambusters - Target X. Twenty minutes had passed and three Lancasters had attacked but there was still no sign of a breach in the Möhne Dam, the first of three primary targets for the newly-formed elite 617 Squadron under the command of W...... | |
| Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor. Price : £145.00 | On the night of 16th - 17th May 1943 nineteen specially modified Lancasters of No.617 Squadron departed from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire on one of the most secret and daring bombing operations undertaken during World War Two. The ultra-secret oper...... | |
| Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor. (AP) SOLD OUT | On the night of 16th - 17th May 1943 nineteen specially modified Lancasters of No.617 Squadron departed from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire on one of the most secret and daring bombing operations undertaken during World War Two. The ultra-secret oper...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor. (B) SOLD OUT | On the night of 16th - 17th May 1943 nineteen specially modified Lancasters of No.617 Squadron departed from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire on one of the most secret and daring bombing operations undertaken during World War Two. The ultra-secret oper...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor. (C) SOLD OUT | On the night of 16th - 17th May 1943 nineteen specially modified Lancasters of No.617 Squadron departed from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire on one of the most secret and daring bombing operations undertaken during World War Two. The ultra-secret oper...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| The Dambusters - Last Moments of the Möhne Dam by Robert Taylor. (AP) Price : £375.00 | As they cleared the surrounding hills the valley unfolded to reveal the black waters of the lake glistening in the crystal clear moonlight. And then, away in the distance, they saw the target they had come to destroy - the Möhne Dam. The larg...... | |
| The Dambusters - Last Moments of the Möhne Dam by Robert Taylor. (B) Price : £265.00 | As they cleared the surrounding hills the valley unfolded to reveal the black waters of the lake glistening in the crystal clear moonlight. And then, away in the distance, they saw the target they had come to destroy - the Möhne Dam. The larg...... | |
| The Dambusters - Last Moments of the Möhne Dam by Robert Taylor. (C) SOLD OUT | As they cleared the surrounding hills the valley unfolded to reveal the black waters of the lake glistening in the crystal clear moonlight. And then, away in the distance, they saw the target they had come to destroy - the Möhne Dam. The larg...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| The Dambusters - Last Moments of the Möhne Dam by Robert Taylor. (RM) SOLD OUT | As they cleared the surrounding hills the valley unfolded to reveal the black waters of the lake glistening in the crystal clear moonlight. And then, away in the distance, they saw the target they had come to destroy - the Möhne Dam. The larg...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| The Dambusters - Last Moments of the Möhne Dam by Robert Taylor. (RMB) SOLD OUT | As they cleared the surrounding hills the valley unfolded to reveal the black waters of the lake glistening in the crystal clear moonlight. And then, away in the distance, they saw the target they had come to destroy - the Möhne Dam. The larg...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| On Course for the Möhne Dam by Richard Taylor. Price : £110.00 | Guy Gibson leads the first wave of 617 Squadron's Lancaster bombers towards the German border and on to the Mőhne dam. After crossing the coast a fraction off course, Gibson adjusts his compass heading slightly and, as the unmistakable thu...... | |
| On Course for the Möhne Dam by Richard Taylor. (AP) Price : £150.00 | Guy Gibson leads the first wave of 617 Squadron's Lancaster bombers towards the German border and on to the Mőhne dam. After crossing the coast a fraction off course, Gibson adjusts his compass heading slightly and, as the unmistakable thu...... | |
| On Course for the Möhne Dam by Richard Taylor. (B) Price : £1125.00 | Guy Gibson leads the first wave of 617 Squadron's Lancaster bombers towards the German border and on to the Mőhne dam. After crossing the coast a fraction off course, Gibson adjusts his compass heading slightly and, as the unmistakable thu...... | |
| On Course for the Möhne Dam by Richard Taylor. (RM) Price : £395.00 | Guy Gibson leads the first wave of 617 Squadron's Lancaster bombers towards the German border and on to the Mőhne dam. After crossing the coast a fraction off course, Gibson adjusts his compass heading slightly and, as the unmistakable thu...... |
| On Course for the Möhne Dam by Richard Taylor. (RMB) Price : £625.00 | Guy Gibson leads the first wave of 617 Squadron's Lancaster bombers towards the German border and on to the Mőhne dam. After crossing the coast a fraction off course, Gibson adjusts his compass heading slightly and, as the unmistakable thu...... | |
| Pathway to the Ruhr by Anthony Saunders. Price : £110.00 | The words from Air Vice-Marshal the Hon. Ralph Cochrane., newly appointed as AOC of No.5 Group, to the young Wing Commander were simple enough. I can't tell you the target he continued but you've got to fly low-level, on the deck,...... | |
| Pathway to the Ruhr by Anthony Saunders. (AP) Price : £145.00 | The words from Air Vice-Marshal the Hon. Ralph Cochrane., newly appointed as AOC of No.5 Group, to the young Wing Commander were simple enough. I can't tell you the target he continued but you've got to fly low-level, on the deck,...... | |
| Pathway to the Ruhr by Anthony Saunders. (RM) Price : £300.00 | The words from Air Vice-Marshal the Hon. Ralph Cochrane., newly appointed as AOC of No.5 Group, to the young Wing Commander were simple enough. I can't tell you the target he continued but you've got to fly low-level, on the deck,...... | |
| Pathway to the Ruhr by Anthony Saunders. (RMB) Price : £475.00 | The words from Air Vice-Marshal the Hon. Ralph Cochrane., newly appointed as AOC of No.5 Group, to the young Wing Commander were simple enough. I can't tell you the target he continued but you've got to fly low-level, on the deck,...... |
| The Dambusters - Three Good Bounces by Robert Taylor. (AP) Price : £425.00 | In the history of air warfare few missions come close in terms of courage and the highest skills of precision flying to the one carried out by 617 Squadron on the night of 16th-17th May 1943. Codenamed Operation Chastise, their mission was to destr...... | |
| The Dambusters - Three Good Bounces by Robert Taylor. (B) Price : £325.00 | In the history of air warfare few missions come close in terms of courage and the highest skills of precision flying to the one carried out by 617 Squadron on the night of 16th-17th May 1943. Codenamed Operation Chastise, their mission was to destr...... | |
| The Dambusters - Three Good Bounces by Robert Taylor. (RM) SOLD OUT | In the history of air warfare few missions come close in terms of courage and the highest skills of precision flying to the one carried out by 617 Squadron on the night of 16th-17th May 1943. Codenamed Operation Chastise, their mission was to destr...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| The Dambusters - Three Good Bounces by Robert Taylor. (RMB) SOLD OUT | In the history of air warfare few missions come close in terms of courage and the highest skills of precision flying to the one carried out by 617 Squadron on the night of 16th-17th May 1943. Codenamed Operation Chastise, their mission was to destr...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO DFC RNZAF Squadron details |
No.617 Sqn RAF Country : UK Known Codes : , AJ, YZ, KC, | No.617 Sqn RAF Apres mois, le deluge - After me, the flood |
Squadron Leader Les Munro DSO DFC RNZAF 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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