The specially-converted Lancaster B MkIII of Fl/Lt David Maltby ED906(G) AJ-J roars between the towers of the dam
Flight Lieutenant Tom Wingham
Catching the JG54 fighters and III/KG55 bombers on the coast
a measure the observers were often forced to employ by the German balloon busters
as part of a unit specialising in attacking American daylight bombing raids
Almost Home by Robert Taylor. SIG253 The specially-converted Lancaster B MkIIIDHM6611. Almost Home by Robert Taylor. night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers