ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945. - Film still showing Avro Lancaster B Mk Is of No. 5 Group, flying at low-level over the French countryside on the evening of 17 October 1942, while en route to attack the Schneider engineering factory at Le Creusot, France, 17 October 1942. The nearest aircraft, R5497 'OF-Z', of No. 97 Squadron is being flown by Flying Officer James Edward Bunt RCAF and crew, who were shot down and killed on an operation in the same aircraft exactly two months later. The film was shot by the navigator of the Lancaster flown by the Commanding Officer of No. 106 Squadr
ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBER COMMAND, 1942-1945. - Film still showing Avro Lancaster B Mk Is of No. 5 Group, flying at low-level over the French countryside on the evening of 17 October 1942, while en route to attack the Schneider engineering factory at Le Creusot, France, 17 October 1942. The nearest aircraft, R5497 'OF-Z', of No. 97 Squadron is being flown by Flying Officer James Edward Bunt RCAF and crew, who were shot down and killed on an operation in the same aircraft exactly two months later. The film was shot by the navigator of the Lancaster flown by the Commanding Officer of No. 106 Squadron RAF, Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who was to command No 617 Squadron RAF the following year. , Gibson, Guy Penrose, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment, Sqdn, 97, Royal Air Force, 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Wing, 50 (Army Co-operation)
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