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Eric Evans | Warrant Officer Eric Evans After qualifying as a Rear Gunner he served with 463 RAAF Sqn serving on Lancasters from Waddington. In November 1944 his Lancaster was shot down by a German night fighter whilst on a mission over Germany and he served the rest of the War as a PoW. |
Items Signed by Warrant Officer Eric Evans |
| Fairey Battle Mk.I by Ivan Berryman. Price : £60.00 | Fairey Battle HA-J of No.218 Sqn is taken by surprise by the close pass of a Bf109E over France. The squadron were based at Auberive-sur-Suippes in 1939, and as part of the Advance Air Striking Force of the RAF during the Battle of France, suffered...... | |
| Fairey Battle Mk.I by Ivan Berryman. (AP) Price : £85.00 | Fairey Battle HA-J of No.218 Sqn is taken by surprise by the close pass of a Bf109E over France. The squadron were based at Auberive-sur-Suippes in 1939, and as part of the Advance Air Striking Force of the RAF during the Battle of France, suffered...... | |
| Operation Mallard by Ivan Berryman. (D) Price : £90.00 | Halifax Tugs Towing Hamilcar Gliders. Halifax glider tugs of 644 Squadron based at Tarrant Rushton head out across the English Channel with their Hamilcar gliders as part of Operation Overlord in June 1944. The mighty Hamilcar was capable of carry...... | |
| Day Duties for the Night Workers by Robert Taylor. (AP) Price : £295.00 | With its mission completed, the mighty Lancaster slowly rolls to a halt on the lonely dispersal point, the roar of its four pulsating Merlin engines steadily slackens, replaced by an eerie silence, broken only by the snapping cracks of cooling metal...... | |
| Day Duties for the Night Workers by Robert Taylor. (B) Price : £250.00 | With its mission completed, the mighty Lancaster slowly rolls to a halt on the lonely dispersal point, the roar of its four pulsating Merlin engines steadily slackens, replaced by an eerie silence, broken only by the snapping cracks of cooling metal...... |
| Day Duties for the Night Workers by Robert Taylor. (C) SOLD OUT | With its mission completed, the mighty Lancaster slowly rolls to a halt on the lonely dispersal point, the roar of its four pulsating Merlin engines steadily slackens, replaced by an eerie silence, broken only by the snapping cracks of cooling metal...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Warrant Officer Eric Evans |
WW2 Halifax Aviation Prints by Gerald Coulson and Ivan Berryman. Pack Price : £260.00 Saving : £95 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Leading the Way by Gerald Coulson. Operation Mallard by Ivan Berryman. (D) | ||
WW2 Bomber Command Halifax Prints by Philip West and Ivan Berryman. Pack Price : £165.00 Saving : £165 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Mutual Support by Philip West. Operation Mallard by Ivan Berryman. (D) | ||
Pilot Signed Fairey Battle Aircraft Prints by Ivan Berryman. Pack Price : £110.00 Saving : £70 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Fairey Battle, 218 Squadron by Ivan Berryman. Fairey Battle Mk.I by Ivan Berryman. |
Squadrons for : Warrant Officer Eric Evans | ||
A list of all squadrons known to have been served with by Warrant Officer Eric Evans. A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name. | ||
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Country : Australia Founded : 25th November 1943 Fate : Disbanded 21st September 1945 Press on regardless | No.463 Sqn RAAF Full profile not yet available. |
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A list of all aircraft associated with Warrant Officer Eric Evans. A profile page including a list of all art prints for the aircraft is available by clicking the aircraft name. | |||
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Manufacturer : Avro Production Began : 1942 Retired : 1963 Number Built : 7377 | Lancaster 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. |
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