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The mighty Lancaster, the mainstay of RAF Bomber Command, crewed byvolunteers from Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia, SouthAfrica, and many other nations opposed to Nazi rule, flew day and night sortieswhenever there was a chance of reaching the target. Their unflinching courage,and selfless devotion to duty paved the way for the D-Day invasion, and theultimate liberation of Nazi occupied Europe.Embellished with Goering's infamous quotation No Enemy Plane Will Fly OverThe Reich Territory, S for Sugar took her bombs to Berlin, Hamburg,Schweinfurt, Bremen, Hanover, Wurzburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt,Dusseldorf, and other prime targets, flying the second greatest number ofoperational sorties of any bomber in the Command. Time and again Sugar broughther crew home, often limping back riddled with flak and bullet holes, occasionallyon three engines, and once all the way back from the German capital with abadly damaged wing following a mid-air collision over the target.Robert Taylor's emotive new painting shows S for Sugar on the morning of 27thApril, 1944 after her 95th sortie - a raid on the ball-bearing factory atSchweinfurt. As the battle-scarred bomber taxies in at RAF Waddington, other467 Squadron Lancasters follow, heading for their dispersal points. Already theweary crews begin their informal debriefing.By the war's end this trusty bomber had completed no fewer than 137 operationsover enemy territory, bringing her crew home every time. Now magnificentlyrestored to her former glory, S for Sugar resides in the RAF Museum at Hendon,providing a lasting tribute to the gallant men of RAF Bomber Command.ne famous aircraft was typical of, and ultimately came to symbolise, the menand machines of Royal Air Force Bomber Command. Flying initially with83 Squadron Pathfinder Force, then 467 Squadron RAAF, Avro Lancaster serialnumber R5868, call sign S for Sugar, took part in almost every major attack onGermany between the summer of 1942 and the end of hostilities. With the lifeexpectancy of a new Lancaster being just a few months, it was a miracle shesurvived the war.

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RAF AIRCREW EDITION
Marshal of the Royal Air Force SIR MICHAEL BEETHAM
Squadron Leader TONY IVESON
Fl Lieutenant HARRY HUGHES
Fl Lieutenant JOHN PETRIE-ANDREWS
RAAF EDITION
Flying Officer LAWRENCE BAKER
Fl Lieutenant ALBERT BOYS
Fl Lieutenant JOHN COLPUS
Fl Lieutenant MAXWELL JOHNSON
Fl Lieutenant WILLIAM KYNOCH
Warrant Officer DAVID MORLAND
Flying Officer NEVILLE MORRISON
Flying Officer JOHN NEDWICH
Flying Officer ROY PEGLER
Warrant Officer RAYMOND SAYER
Sqdn Leader THOMAS SCHOLEFIELD
Flying Officer ALBERT WALLACE
RAF BOMBER COMMAND EDITION
In addition to RAF Aircrew Edition Signatures
Air Marshal SIR JOHN CURTISS
Sqdn Leader E. GRAY WARD
Sqdn Leader \MAC\ HAMILTON
Sqdn Leader REG LEWIS
The Lord MACKIE of BENSHIE
Sqdn Leadrer HARRY WRIGHT

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