Collected Podcast Episode 15: G for George
During the Second World War, 10,000 Australians served in British-based Bomber Command. More than one in three were killed during air raids over Europe, in training, or in accidents. In Episode 15 of Collected, Louise Maher explores the remarkable history of the Memorial’s Lancaster Avro ‘G for George’ and the stories of the men who flew in these heavy four-engined bombers.
Credits:
Presented by: Louise Maher
Produced by: Louise Maher
Interviewed:
George Bailey, Senior Objects Conservator
Oral Histories:
Robert Basil Gray (Bob) Murphy
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C87893
Arthur William Doubleday
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C87922
Edgar Pickles
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2613033
Original music: Andy Heaney, Vice Like Grip
97 year old Edgar Pickles DFC former Bomber command veteran, with G for George, Feb 20 2018
Members of the crew of "G" for George, the veteran Lancaster aircraft of 460 Squadron RAAF in the UK, in front of their aircraft. . This aircraft has completed ninety operations and has been earmarked for the Australian War Museum after the war
Members of the crew of "G" for George, the veteran Lancaster aircraft of 460 Squadron RAAF in the UK, in front of their aircraft. The crew are preparing for either the second last or last flown operation on the 10 or 24 April 1944 before G George was retired from operational service. Left to right back row: 424050 Flight Sergeant (F Sgt) A G Brown, Sydney, NSW; 426771 Flying Officer (FO) R G Sampson, Mackay, QLD; 401614 FO J A Critchley DFC, Melbourne, VIC; Sergeant (Sgt) Shaw, RAF, Ramsgate, England; Sgt Knott, RAF, Walthamstow, England. Front row left to right; 426484 F Sgt M L Armstrong, Brisbane, QLD; Sgt Starkey, RAF. This aircraft has completed ninety operations.