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Lancaster - Aircraft Profile - Avro : Lancaster

Lancaster

Manufacturer : Avro
Number Built : 7377
Production Began : 1942
Retired : 1963
Type : Bomber

The Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' "Operation Gomorrah" in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992.

Lancaster


Latest Lancaster Artwork Releases !
 Walter Briegleb is shown in his Ju88 G.7 4R+BR as he stalks his prey - on this occasion a Lancaster.  Flying below their target, his crew would aim upward firing cannon at the inner wing of the bomber, igniting the fuel tanks.  For the bomber crews, they were very much defenceless against this type of attack, and often had no idea of the presence of an enemy aircraft in the dark.

Tribute to Walter Briegleb by Ivan Berryman.
 The attack by Leutnant Walter Briegleb and his crew on Lancaster Mk.III ND960 DX-I of No.57 Sqn early on 22nd May 1944.  Flying Me110 with codes D5+BV with his crew of Feldwebel Walter Bräunlich and Bordfunker Feldwebel Brandt, Briegleb flew undetected beneath the bomber and used the deadly 'Schräge Musik' - upward firing cannon - to hit the fuel tanks in the port wing between the fuselage and inner engine.  Pulling away, he watched the aircraft burn and could see both gunners in their turrets but no return fire came.  He wondered why none of the crew escaped by parachute with the bomber doomed - it disintegrated in the air over the coast of the island of Fyn, Denmark, impacting near Emtekær at 00:44hrs.<br><br><center>All of the crew were killed :<br>Flight Lieutenant Arthur Richards (Pilot)<br>Flying Officer William Woodall (Navigator)<br>Pilot Officer Athur Bugden (Flight Engineer)<br>Sergeant Thomas Edwards (Wireless Operator)<br>Flying Officer George Ferguson (Air Bomber)<br>Sergeant Harold Griffiths (Air Gunner)<br>Sergeant Cyril Woodmass (Air Gunner)

The Hunted and the Hunter by Ivan Berryman.
 A Lancaster of No.15 Squadron takes to the air at the start of a night sortie from Mildenhall in June 1944.

Last One Away by Ivan Berryman. (PC)
 The Lancaster B MkIII of Flt Lt J V Hopgood was the second aircraft to make an attempt at breaching the Mohne Dam on the night of 16/17th of May 1943, ED925(G) (AJ-M) encountering intense flak and 20mm fire from the shore and from the towers of the dam itself. Just moments from the release of the Upkeep bomb, both of Hopgood's port engines took direct hits and burst into flames as other rounds ripped through the starboard wing. Despite these fatal strikes, the brave crew pressed home their attack, but released their bomb just seconds too late to be effective. The bomb bounced over the dam wall, landing on the power station below where it exploded with devastating results. With blazing fuel now engulfing the wing of his crippled aircraft, Hopgood climbed to about 500ft where the wing failed, sending ED925 into a dive from which it would never recover. By jumping clear just moments before impact, two of her crew survived to become prisoners of war.

Determined to the Last by Ivan Berryman. (PC)

Lancaster Artwork Collection



Avro Lancaster Mk III ND845 MG-C. by M A Kinnear.


The Sinking of The Tirpitz by Gerald Coulson.


Peenemunde by Frank Wootton.


Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman.


Moonlight Run (Dambusters) by Ivan Berryman.


The Night They Broke the Dams - Operation Chastise by Ivan Berryman.


The Dambusters by Ivan Berryman.


Lancaster Arrival by Graeme Lothian. (P)


Bill Reid VC by Graeme Lothian. (P)


Gunner's Moon by Ivan Berryman.


Raid on the Tirpitz by Ivan Berryman.


The One That Broke The Dam by Ivan Berryman.


'O' Safe Home by Ivan Berryman.


Moment of Truth by Ivan Berryman. (P)


The Hardest Task by Ivan Berryman. (P)


No Way Back by Ivan Berryman.


Determined to the Last by Ivan Berryman. (GS)


Attack on the Sorpe by Ivan Berryman.


A Wing and a Prayer by Ivan Berryman.


Tragedy at the Eder by Ivan Berryman.


Incident over Mannheim by Ivan Berryman.


A Lucky Escape by Ivan Berryman.


Tragedy Above Hamm by Ivan Berryman.


Not This Time by Ivan Berryman.


Unmissable Chance by Ivan Berryman.


Teamwork by Ivan Berryman.


The Attack on Villers Bocage by Ivan Berryman.


617 Squadron Outbound to the Ruhr by Ivan Berryman.


Undetected by Ivan Berryman.


Last One Away by Ivan Berryman.


Operation Manna by Ivan Berryman.


Bombing Up by Ivan Berryman.


The Horror and the Glory by Ivan Berryman.


First Strike by Ivan Berryman.


Clipped Signature - Eric Jones.


Clipped Signature - Leslie Hay.


Clipped Signature - Robert Souter.


Clipped Signature - Ernest Webb.


Clipped Signature - Tony Iveson.


Clipped Signature - Sir Michael Beetham.


Clipped Signature - Norman Jackson VC.


Clipped Signature - Bill Reid VC.


Clipped Signature - E A 'Ted' Wass.


Clipped Signature - Des Phillips.


Clipped Signature - James 'Willie' Tait.


Clipped Signature - Ron Curtis.


Clipped Signature - Ken Brown.


Clipped Signature - Raymond Grayston.


Clipped Signature - George 'Johnny' Johnson.


Clipped Signature - Frederick Sutherland.


Clipped Signature - Grant S McDonald.


Clipped Signature - Kenneth Lucas.


Clipped Signature - Ken Hubbard.


Clipped Signature - James Kelly.


Clipped Signature - Edward Johnson.


Clipped Signature - George Chalmers.


Clipped Signature - Geoffrey Womersley.


Clipped Signature - Robert Ferguson.


Clipped Signature - David Shannon.


Clipped Signature - John Langston.


Clipped Signature - Joe Warburton.


Clipped Signature - Robert Wintle.


Clipped Signature - Leopold Doyle.


Clipped Signature - C R Paterson.


Clipped Signature - Ralph Briars.


Clipped Signature - Bill Buttle.


Under Cover of the Night by Simon Smith.


Last Long Shadow by Anthony Saunders.


Lancaster Dawn by Anthony Saunders.


Jet Attack by David Pentland.


Combat Over Domremy by Graeme Lothian.


Goner 78A - The Dambusters Raid by Tim Fisher.


Distant Dispersal by Graeme Lothian.


Nursing Her Home by Ivan Berryman.


Target Y The Eder Dam Raid, The Ruhr Valley, 17th May 1942 by David Pentland.


Gibson VC by Graeme Lothian.


Lancaster VC by Graeme Lothian.


The Dambusters by Graeme Lothian.


The Night Awaits by Keith Woodcock.


The Dambusters by Simon Smith.


The Shining Sword by Simon Smith.


Gibson by Robert Tomlin.


Third Time Lucky by Ivan Berryman.


Operation Chastise - The Night They Broke the Dams by Ivan Berryman.


Forming Up by Randall Wilson. (GL)


Operation Chastise - The Dambusters by Philip West.


Every Second Counts - The Dambusters by Philip West.


En-Route by Anthony Saunders.


Dambusters by Anthony Saunders.


Well on the Way to Make History - the Dambusters by David Pentland.


Avro Lancaster B.1 by Ivan Berryman.


Towards Victory by Philip West.


GONER 58A - Mohne Dam, Germany, 17th May 1943 by David Pentland.


Inbound to Target - The Dambusters by Robert Taylor.


Dambusters - The First Wave by Ivan Berryman.


Dambusters - Moment of Truth by Ivan Berryman.


The Dambusters by Gerald Coulson.


Bravest of the Brave by Ivan Berryman.


Attack on the Sorpe by Ivan Berryman.


Raining Fire by Ivan Berryman.


The Eder Breaks by Ivan Berryman.


Night of Strong Winds by David Pentland.


Sinking the Tirpitz by Nicolas Trudgian.


Bomber Force by Nicolas Trudgian.


Cloud Companions by Robert Taylor.


Target Peenemunde by Robert Taylor.


Lancaster VC by Robert Taylor


One Hundred Up! by Simon Atack.

Against All Odds by Ronald Homes.


Primary Target by Philip West.


Outward Bound by Philip West (AP)


Operations On by Philip West.


Mission Completed by Simon Smith.


Duel in the Dark by Robert Taylor.


Strike and Return by Robert Taylor.

Preparing for the Tirpitz by Philip West.


Lancaster Legend by Philip West.


Homeward Bound by Nicolas Trudgian.

Welcome Home by Stephen Brown.


Heading Home by Philip West.

Eye of the Storm - The Dambusters by Philip West.


Target Bearing 270 by Robert Taylor.

Legends of the Air by Philip West.

Primary Target by Philip West - Original Sketch. (P)

In the Mists of Time by Philip West.

Almost Home by Philip West.


Breaching the Eder by Simon Smith.


Dambusters Outward Bound by Simon Smith.

Preparation, Trepidation, Relaxation by Keith Woodcock.

Night Mission Ahead by Keith Woodcock.

Home on Three by Fred McMain.


Lancaster - The Heavy Brigade by Keith Woodcock.


Return of the Dambuster by Keith Woodcock.


Mynarskis Lanc by Nicolas Trudgian.


Band of Brothers by Robert Taylor.

Inbound by Stephen Brown.


Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson.


Dambusters - The Impossible Mission by Robert Taylor.


The Homecoming by Keith Woodcock.


High Cost by Robert Taylor.


A Winters Dawn by Philip West.


Dambusters - The Morning After by Gerald Coulson.

Night of Heroes - The Dambusters by Philip West.


Enemy Coast Ahead - The Dambusters by Philip West.

Twos Company by Philip West.


Breaching the Dams by Nicolas Trudgian.


Safely Home by Nicolas Trudgian.


Dambusters - Breaching the Eder Dam by Robert Taylor.


Enemy Coast Ahead by Simon Atack.


Breaching the Möhne by Anthony Saunders.


Approach to the Möhne Dam by Anthony Saunders.


Lancaster by Frank Wootton.


Low Pass Over the Möhne Dam by Anthony Saunders.


The Dambusters by Ivan Berryman.


Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor.


Day Duties for the Night Workers by Robert Taylor.


Into Attack by Gerald Coulson.


Moonlit Lancaster by Gerald Coulson.


Prelude by Geoffrey R Herickx.


Old Sugar by John Young.


Operation Chastise by John Young.


Winter Homecoming by Robert Taylor. (GS)


Salute to the Stump by Graham Bosworth.


A Welcome Sight by Richard Taylor.


Towards Night's Darkness by Robert Taylor.


Berlin Boar Fight by Anthony Saunders.


Final Briefing by Anthony Saunders.


The Breach by Anthony Saunders.


The Dambusters - Last Moments of the Möhne Dam by Robert Taylor.


On Course for the Möhne Dam by Richard Taylor.


Pathway to the Ruhr by Anthony Saunders.


The Dambusters - Three Good Bounces by Robert Taylor.


Return to East Kirkby by Richard Taylor.


Ops On Hold by Richard Taylor.


Almost Home by Robert Taylor.

The Bomber Boys by James Dietz.


Home Again England by Robert Taylor.


Lucky Seven by Ivan Berryman. (PC)


The Hunted and the Hunter by Ivan Berryman.


Tribute to Walter Briegleb by Ivan Berryman.


Home in Time for Tea by Ivan Berryman. (PC)

Dambusters, May 1943 by Peter Read.


The Legend Lives On by A Bramham.


Now They Know We Are Here! by P E Holland.


Tractor Girl by David Pentland.


Topping Up by David Pentland.


Dam Defenders by David Pentland.


Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-N by David Pentland.


Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-L by David Pentland.


Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-G by David Pentland.


Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-P by David Pentland.


Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-M by David Pentland.


Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-A by David Pentland.


The Secret Weapon by David Pentland.


Long Night Ahead by Gerald Coulson.


The Long Journey Home by Adrian Rigby.


A Lincolnshire Sunset 1944 by Gerald Coulson.


Alone at Dawn by Gerald Coulson.


Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson.


Outbound Lancaster by Gerald Coulson.


Off Duty Lancaster at Rest by Gerald Coulson.


Merlins Thunder by Gerald Coulson.


Band of Brothers by Gerald Coulson.


Lancaster Lift-Off by Gerald Coulson.


Returning from Caen by Graeme Lothian.


Crewing Up by Graeme Lothian.

In Remembrance by Michael Turner.


Lancaster Dispersal by Michael Turner.


Dambusters over the Mohne by Ivan Berryman.


Bombers by Keith Aspinall.


Breaking the Silence by Keith Aspinall.

Gibson Over the Mohne by Keith Aspinall.


Last One Home by Keith Aspinall.


Climbing Out by Keith Aspinall.


Predator by Keith Aspinall.


End of a Long Night by Keith Aspinall.


Safely Home by Keith Aspinall.


Here Comes Another One, Skipper by Keith Aspinall.


Lincolnshire Winter 1943 by Keith Aspinall.


Tallboy Raid by Keith Aspinall.


Tonight We Make History by Keith Aspinall.


Target Tirpitz by Keith Aspinall.


Lancasters by Keith Woodcock.


On Finals for Christmas by Keith Woodcock.


Unexpected Snow by Keith Woodcock.


Winter Departure by Keith Woodcock.


Time Flies by Keith Woodcock.


City of Lincoln by Keith Woodcock. (PC)


Lancaster Dawn by Barry Price.


Operation Chastise - The Dambuster Raid by Barry Price.


Heading into Darkness by Adrian Rigby


Enemy Coast Ahead by M A Kinnear.


The Sinking of the Tirpitz by Frank Wootton.


Broken Silence by Roy Garner.


Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian.


Moonlight Hunter by Nicolas Trudgian.


RAF Lancasters by Barry Price.


Lancasters - 97 Squadron by Barry Price.


The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight by Trevor Mitchell.


Operation Chastise by Tony Sargeant.

Story of the Lancaster

Bombing Up Yorker by Robin Smith.


Morning Glory by Robin Smith.

Snowbound Lancasters by Robin Smith.


60th Anniversary D-Day Poppy Drop by Robin Smith.

Sunset Saviours by Robin Smith.


Bombers Moon by Robert Taylor.


Escort for the Straggler by Robert Taylor.


Climbing Out by Robert Taylor.


Crewing Up by Robert Taylor.


Dambusters by Robert Taylor.


Early Morning Arrival by Robert Taylor.


G for George by Robert Taylor.


Lancaster by Robert Taylor.


Lancaster Under Attack by Robert Taylor.


Last Flight Home by Robert Taylor.


Memorial Flight by Robert Taylor.


Operation Chastise by Robert Taylor.


Operations On by Robert Taylor.


Straggler Returns by Robert Taylor.


No Turning Back by Robert Taylor.


Dam Busters Setting Off by Simon Atack.


Night Raiders by Stan Stokes.

Avro Lancaster Poster by P Oliver.


Lancaster BIIIs of 61 Sqn RAF by Keith Woodcock.

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