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Handley Page Hampden by Keith Woodcock. - Cranston Military Prints

Handley Page Hampden by Keith Woodcock.


Handley Page Hampden by Keith Woodcock.

In September 1938, 49 Squadron was the first Squadron to be equipped with Hampden aircraft. During the Second World War they carried out the attack on the Dortmund-Ems Canal on 12th August 1940. The squadron flew Hampdens until 1942 when No.49 Squadron converted to Manchester bombers.
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Operating from RAF Leuchers on January 29th 1943 Hamdens of 455 RAAF & 489 RNAF Squadrons Coastal Command escorted by Beaufighters attacked and sank the former Norwegian cargo ship Kaldes south west of Stavanger.
Turmoil in Norwegian Waters by Marii Chernev. 		Joining the Royal Air Force in 1941, he trained in Canada before being assigned to No.49 Sqn flying Lancasters. He completed 36 combat operations at the height of Bomber Command's offensive against Germany.

Clipped Signature - Leslie Hay.		 When No 49 Squadron Lancasters bombed the S.S. barracks at Berchtesgaden on 25th April 1945, its aircrews completed a campaign that had begun 5 and a half years earlier in September, 1939. From the very beginning, 49 Squadron were in the thick of the action with one of their pilots, Roderick Learoyd, winning Bomber Commands first Victoria Cross. In 1942 it was Lancasters of 49 Squadron that led the epic raid on Schneider armament and locomotive works at Le Creusot. In 1943 they flew the shuttle-bombing raids to Friedrichshafen and Spezia, attacked the heavily defended rocket sites at Peenemunde, and in preparation for D-Day, bombarded the coastal batteries in Normandy and the V-1 sites in the caves by the river Loire, north of Paris. Later in 1944 the squadron notably took part in the raid on German Baltic Fleet, continuing to fly important bombing missions against the Nazi war machine until the final collapse of the Third Reich. So it was fitting that an RAF squadron whose history went right back to 1916, should make the coupe de grace at Berchtesgarden. Northern Europes short summer nights, with darkness lasting but a few hours, often saw the RAF bomber crews returning to England at dawn, and it is one such scene which is caught up over the river Orwell at Pin Mill, Lancasters of No. 49 Squadron descend low over Suffolk, heading towards their base at Fiskerton. The night raid on Hamburg is almost completed. Spitfires from No. 129 Squadron, based at Hornchurch, having made an early morning attack on German installations in Holland, have picked up the bombers and escorted them home.

Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian. 		Serving with No.49 Sqn and No.617 Sqn as an Air Gunner, he flew on the Dortmund-Ems Canal raid on 23rd-24th September 1944 with No.617 Sqn as the target was destroyed by tallboy bombs. He had previously been awarded the DFM for an incident with No.49 Sqn in February that year where they had been hit by friendly fire from an over-eager Lancaster gunner but despite the damage caused, pressed on to complete their mission. <br><br><b>Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures.</b><br>

Clipped Signature - Ralph Briars.
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