Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The crew of Avro Lancaster B Mark III, ED689 'WS-K', of No. 9 Squadron RAF, headed by the captain, Flight Lieutenant J A Wakeford boarding their aircraft at Bardney, Lincolnshire, for their 50th mission, a raid on the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany. This special raid introduced novel tactics devised by No. 5 Group, among which was the 'shuttle' technique. After bombing the target, the Lancasters flew to Blida in North Africa, where they were refuelled and rearmed, returning to the United Kingdom
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. The crew of Avro Lancaster B Mark III, ED689 'WS-K', of No. 9 Squadron RAF, headed by the captain, Flight Lieutenant J A Wakeford boarding their aircraft at Bardney, Lincolnshire, for their 50th mission, a raid on the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany. This special raid introduced novel tactics devised by No. 5 Group, among which was the 'shuttle' technique. After bombing the target, the Lancasters flew to Blida in North Africa, where they were refuelled and rearmed, returning to the United Kingdom two nights later and attacking Spezia, Italy, en route. Two weeks later, Wakeford and his crew were shot down and killed in ED689, during a raid to Cologne, Germany.
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