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Avro Lancaster III (G-AHJV) of British South American Airways in flight, circa 1948

Photographs, In Storage, P100034

The Avro Lancaster III was fitted with American-built Packard Merlin engines instead of the Rolls-Royce Merlin. Lancaster III G-AHJV was one of a number converted for use as transport aircraft.

Avro Lancaster III (G-AHJV) of British South American Airways in flight, circa 1948 | P100034, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Avro Lancaster B Mk III, DV267, close-up of aircrew about to climb on board, 1944

Photographs, In Storage, PC72/203/1

Warrant Officer John Laurens, DFM, Flight Sergeant Les Burton and Sergeants Chris Aitkin, Don Bolt, Ted Royston, Cassian Henry Waight, Davies and Kibble are pictured about to board.

Seven flying personnel facing camera, on ground, one turning to camera as he enters rear door of an Avro Lancaster, RAF Museum

Bomber Command operational film Nos. 110 and 111

Film & Sound, In Storage, FC96/108

Two films taken from aircraft of Bomber Command during Second World War bombing raids on Turin and Milan. Details on the personnel and aircraft concerned are given in title screens.

Image pending

Avro Lancaster III in flight, circa 1943

Photographs, In Storage, P100026

The Avro Lancaster was designed as a four-engined replacement for the Avro Manchester, using four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines instead of two Rolls-Royce Vultures. The prototype first flew on 9 January 1941.

Avro Lancaster III in flight, circa 1943 | P100026, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Avro Lancaster III (G-AHJV) of British South American Airways in flight, circa 1948

Photographs, In Storage, P100035

The Avro Lancaster III was fitted with American-built Packard Merlin engines instead of the Rolls-Royce Merlin. Lancaster III G-AHJV was one of a number converted for use as transport aircraft.

Avro Lancaster III (G-AHJV) of British South American Airways in flight, circa 1948 | P100035, Royal Air Force Museum, Charles Brown Collection

Recording in which members of a Lancaster crew comment on a daylight raid, 14 August 1944

Film & Sound, In Storage, SC85/74

BBC despatch in which each member of a Lancaster crew comments briefly on a daylight raid from which they have just returned.

Image pending

A yank in the RCAF

Archives, In Storage, B2445

This is the memoir of American Major Hubert Knilans of No. 617 Squadron detailing his time in the RCAF. He flew in Operation Taxable, a deception operation leading up to D-Day.

A yank in the RCAF | B2445, Royal Air Force Museum