Nose art on Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft A-Able showing a stylised Australian flag and 30 ...

Accession Number P02604.020
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Lincolnshire, Binbrook
Date made c 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Nose art on Avro Lancaster bomber aircraft A-Able showing a stylised Australian flag and 30 missions flown. The captain of the aircraft had also been awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and this had also been painted beside the bombs and ice cream cones (Italian missions) to display the number of missions.