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Fred Watts No Photo Available Died : 6 / 8 / 2007

Flight Lieutenant Fred Watts DFC (deceased) Fred Watts joined the RAF in 1940, and qualifying as a pilot was posted to 630 Squadron in 1943 flying 15 operations on Lancasters out of East Kirby. He joined 617 Squadron in April 1944 and took part in many of the precision operations that the Squadron was renowned for, including raids on V1 sites, V2 rocket bases, and all three attacks on the Tirpitz. He left 617 Squadron in March 1945 to join 83 Pathfinder Squadron for Far East deployment with Tiger Force but VJ-day brought disbandment of the Force before it could be despatched. He stayed on in the RAF after the end of the war, retiring in 1964. He died 6th August 2007.

Items Signed by Flight Lieutenant Fred Watts DFC (deceased)

	Strike and Return by Robert Taylor (C) SOLD OUT	Winter in Northern Europe brings short days, long nights and, for the most part, appalling weather making navigation difficult and flying hazardous, even by todays electronically sophisticated standards. Throughout RAF Bomber Commands arduous six ye......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Strike and Return by Robert Taylor (D) SOLD OUT	Winter in Northern Europe brings short days, long nights and, for the most part, appalling weather making navigation difficult and flying hazardous, even by todays electronically sophisticated standards. Throughout RAF Bomber Commands arduous six ye......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Target Bearing 270 by Robert Taylor (B) SOLD OUT	At sunrise on 12 November, 1944, led by Wing Commander James Tait, Lancasters of 617 Squadron RAF prepare to make their bombing run on the German battleship Tirpitz, lying in the Norwegian fjord at Tromso.......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Legends of the Air by Philip West. Price : £175.00	Probably the most famous RAF Squadron in history, mainly due to the audacious Dambuster raid in 1943. Other notably successful missions flying their Avro Lancaster bombers included precision raids on the mighty German battleship Tirpitz, U-boat pens,......
	A Lincolnshire Sunset 1944 by Gerald Coulson. Price : £180.00	The Avro Lancaster was possibly the most versatile and successful bomber aircraft ever and certainly became the backbone of RAF Bomber Command during WWII. Being able to deliver a greater payload than any other aircraft of The War, the Lancaster was ......

	A Lincolnshire Sunset 1944 by Gerald Coulson (AP) SOLD OUT	The Avro Lancaster was possibly the most versatile and successful bomber aircraft ever and certainly became the backbone of RAF Bomber Command during WWII. Being able to deliver a greater payload than any other aircraft of The War, the Lancaster was ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	A Lincolnshire Sunset 1944 by Gerald Coulson. (XX) Price : £150.00	The Avro Lancaster was possibly the most versatile and successful bomber aircraft ever and certainly became the backbone of RAF Bomber Command during WWII. Being able to deliver a greater payload than any other aircraft of The War, the Lancaster was......
	A Lincolnshire Sunset 1944 by Gerald Coulson. (Y) SOLD OUT	The Avro Lancaster was possibly the most versatile and successful bomber aircraft ever and certainly became the backbone of RAF Bomber Command during WWII. Being able to deliver a greater payload than any other aircraft of The War, the Lancaster was ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	The Sinking of the Tirpitz by Frank Wootton. SOLD OUT	A first-hand account of the sinking of the Tirpitz by Bob Knights. - The early morning of 12th November 1944 was clear and very cold, and the wings of the Lancasters of 617 Squadron, parked on the airfield at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, were coated ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	The Sinking of the Tirpitz by Frank Wootton (B) SOLD OUT	A first-hand account of the sinking of the Tirpitz by Bob Knights. - The early morning of 12th November 1944 was clear and very cold, and the wings of the Lancasters of 617 Squadron, parked on the airfield at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland, were coate......	NOT AVAILABLE

Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Flight Lieutenant Fred Watts DFC (deceased)

	Dambusters Aviation Art Print Pack. Pack Price : £290.00 Saving : £165	Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Final Briefing by Anthony Saunders. 'O' Safe Home by Ivan Berryman. No Way Back by Ivan Berryman. A Lincolnshire Sunset 1944 by Gerald Coulson.
	Dambusters Discount 5 Print Pack. Pack Price : £200.00 Saving : £270	Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : A Lincolnshire Sunset 1944 by Gerald Coulson. The One That Broke The Dam by Ivan Berryman. 'O' Safe Home by Ivan Berryman. No Way Back by Ivan Berryman. Raining Fire by Ivan Berryman.

Flight Lieutenant Fred Watts DFC (deceased)

Aircraft for : Flight Lieutenant Fred Watts DFC (deceased)
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Lancaster Click the name above to see prints featuring Lancaster aircraft. 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.