LANCASTER FOUR-ENGINED BOMBER, BELIEVED TO BE BUILT AND FLOWN TO AUSTRALIA AS ED-930, AND TAKEN ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Ipswich, Amberley
Accession Number AC0078
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

LANCASTER FOUR-ENGINED BOMBER, BELIEVED TO BE BUILT AND FLOWN TO AUSTRALIA AS ED-930, AND TAKEN ON RAAF CHARGE AS A66-1. ABSENCE OF MID-UPPER TURRET CONFIRMS THIS IDENTIFICATION. DATE AND LOCATION UNKNOWN. THIS ONE WAS "QUEENIE VI," FLOWN TO AUSTRALIA BY 401068, FLIGHT LIEUTENANT P.S. ISAACSON, DFC, AFC, DFM; AND HIS ALL-RAAF CREW; WITH ARRIVAL AT AMBERLEY ON 1943-06-03. IT IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH W-4783, "G FOR GEORGE" IN AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, WHICH WAS FLOWN OUT BY RAAF CREW HEADED BY 405406, FLIGHT LIEUTENANT E.A. HUDSON, DFC (AND BAR), WITH ARRIVAL AT AMBERLEY (QLD) ON 1944-11-08, SOME 17 MONTHS LATER.