AIRCRAFT OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: AVRO 683 LANCASTER. - Type 464 (Provisioning) Lancaster, ED825/G, at Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, during handling trials. One of some twenty aircraft specially built to carry the Upkeep weapon (“bouncing bomb”) on Operation CHASTISE (the Dams raid) by No. 617 Squadron RAF, ED825/G was delivered to the Squadron as a spare aircraft on 15 May 1943 and was subsequently flown on the raid by Flt Lt J C McCarthy and crew on 16/17 May Royal Air Force, Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment, Sqdn, 168

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