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Douglas Newham
| Flight Lieutenant Douglas Newham LVO DFC (deceased) Douglas Newham was a navigator with 156 and 150 Squadrons, completing a tour in the middle east on Wellingtons. On his return to Britain he would spend a year instructing at navigation school before transferring to the Lancasters of 10 Squadron. Unfortunately, Douglas passed away on March 14th, 2022. |
Items Signed by Flight Lieutenant Douglas Newham LVO DFC (deceased) |
  | Lancaster Arrival by Graeme Lothian. (P) Price : £500.00 | A Lancaster returns to its home airfield. ...... | |
  | Bill Reid VC by Graeme Lothian. (P) Price : £500.00 | Lancaster LM360, piloted by Bill Reid, is raked by fire from stem to stern by a Luftwaffe Fw190 fighter. Bill Reid had already sustained injuries to his head, torso and hands from a previous attack by an Me110, but, with this rest of his crew unsca...... | |
  | Clipped Signature - Douglas Newham. Price : £40.00 | Douglas Newham was a navigator with 156 and 150 Squadrons, completing a tour in the middle east on Wellingtons. On his return to Britain he would spend a year instructing at navigation school before transferring to the Lancasters of 10 Squadron. Unf...... | |
  | No Turning Back by Robert Taylor (B) Price : £295.00 | A Lancaster of No. 61 Squadron, RAF, piloted by Flt. Lt. Bill Reid, under attack from a German Fw190 en route to Dusseldorf on the night of November 3rd, 1943. Already injured in a previous attack, Bill Reid was again wounded but pressed on for anot...... |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Flight Lieutenant Douglas Newham LVO DFC (deceased) |
| Squadrons for : Flight Lieutenant Douglas Newham LVO DFC | ||
| A list of all squadrons known to have been served with by Flight Lieutenant Douglas Newham LVO DFC. A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name. | ||
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Country : UK Founded : 1st April 1918 Fate : Disbanded 9th April 1963 Always ahead | No.150 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
Country : UK Founded : 12th October 1918 Fate : Disbanded 25th September 1945 Pathfinder Squadron We light the way | No.156 Sqn RAF Formed on 12th October 1918, the squadron flew DH9 aircraft, but did not become fully operative, and was disbanded on 9th December 1918. The squadron reformed on 14th February 1942, with Wellington aircraft, which it used until these were replaced with Lancasters in January 1943. The squadron was disbanded on 25th September 1945. | |
| Aircraft for : Flight Lieutenant Douglas Newham LVO DFC | |||
| A list of all aircraft associated with Flight Lieutenant Douglas Newham LVO DFC. 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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