File:Rear fuselage of A. V. Roe 683 Lancaster B Mk.III (NE135 - VN-F) (50489902143).jpg

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English: Lancaster NE135 was operated by 50 Squadron based at RAF Skellingthorpe when she was tasked to bomb factories at Russelsheim near Frankfurt on the night of 12/13th August 1944.

She was shot down over Belgium and crashed at Bas-Oha, to the West of Huy. All seven crew were killed.

The crew were:- Flying Officer Douglas Leslie Haynes (RAAF) - Pilot, Flight Sergeant George Donald Currey (RAAF) – Wireless Operator / Gunner Flight Sergeant John Lourdes Shortal (RAAF) – Mid upper gunner Flight Sergeant William Ivon Warrington (RAAF) – Rear gunner Flight Lieutenant Ernest Ingham Tennant (RAF) – Flight Engineer Sergeant Geoffrey Charles Remsbery (RAF) – Navigator and Flight Sergeant Phillip Harold Clucas (RAF) – Bomb aimer

This extreme rear fuselage section was kept by a local farmer and eventually moved to a Dutch museum. It joined the collection here in March 2014. Wings Museum, Balcombe, West Sussex, UK

20th August 2020
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Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/50489902143/
Author Alan Wilson
Camera location51° 03′ 37.22″ N, 0° 10′ 06.16″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by HawkeyeUK - Support your local Air Museum! at https://flickr.com/photos/65001151@N03/50489902143. It was reviewed on 31 October 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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