16th February 2018, 20:03
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Alter Hase
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Switzerland
Posts: 1,854
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Re: most Lancaster missions
Good evening Gentlemen,
the Lancaster definitely produced more VC airmen than any other aircraft type:
7 VC's - Avro Lancaster: Ian Bazalgette, Guy Gibson, Norman Jackson, John Nettleton, Robert Palmer, William Reed, George Thompson
3 VC's - Bristol Blenheim: Hughie Edwards, Hugh Malcolm, Arthur Scarf
- R.A.F. B.E.2c: William Leefe Robinson, Frank McNamara, William Rhodes-Moorhouse
- R.A.F. S.E.5a: Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor, Edward Mannock, James McCudden
2 VC's - Armstrong Whitworth FK 8: Alan McLeod, Ferdinand West
- Fairey Battle: Donald Garland, Thomas Gray
- Handley Page Halifax: Cyril Barton, Leonard Cheshire
- Handley Page Hampden: John Hannah, Roderick Learoyd
1 VC - Airco D.H.2: Lionel Rees
- Avro Manchester: Leslie Manser
- Bristol Beaufort: Kenneth Campbell
- Bristol Scout: Lanoe Hawker
- Consolidated Catalina: John Cruickshank
- Douglas Dakota: David Lord
- Hawker Hurricane: James Nicolson
- Morane-Saulnier Type L: Reginald Warneford
- Nieuport 10: Richard Bell-Davies
- Nieuport 23: William Bishop
- R.A.F. F.E.2d: Thomas Mottershead
- R.A.F. R.E.5: John Liddell
- R.A.F. S.E.5: Albert Ball
- Short Stirling: Arthur Aaron
- Sopwith Camel: Alan Jerrard
- Sopwith Snipe: William Barker
- Vickers F.B.5: Gilbert Insall
- Vought Corsair: Robert Gray
Cheshire's VC citation mentions a mission in a Mustang but the award was made for four years of fighting and I think he flew more missions in a Halifax than in his other planes.
Cheers,
Michael
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