Appendix 3

Bomber Command Lancaster Aircrew Victoria Cross Recipients

 

Squadron A/c

Action/Award

Nettleton, Acting Squadron Leader John Dering, pilot

44 Lancaster

17.4.42 28,4.42

Gibson, Acting Wing Commander Guy Penrose DSO* DFC* pilot

617 Lancaster

16/17.5.43 28.5.43

Reid, Acting Flight Lieutenant William RAFVR pilot

61 Lancaster

3/4.11.43 14.12.43

Cheshire, Wing Commander Geoffrey Leonard DSO* DFC RAFVR pilot

617 Lancaster

8.9.44

Thompson, Flight Sergeant George RAFVR, WOp

9 Lancaster

1.1.45 20.2.45*

Palmer, Acting Squadron Leader Robert Anthony Maurice DFC RAFVR pilot

109 Lancaster

23.12.44 23.4.45*

Swales, Captain Edwin DFC SAAF, ‘master bomber’

582 Lancaster

23/24.2.45 24.4.45*

Bazalgette, Acting Squadron Leader Ian Willoughby DFC RAFVR ‘master bomber’

635 Lancaster

4.8.44 17.8.45*

Jackson, Sergeant (later Warrant Officer) Norman Cyril RAFVR flight engineer

106 Lancaster

26/27.4.44 26.10.45

Mynarski, Pilot Officer Andrew Charles RCAF mid-upper gunner

419 Lancaster

12/13.6.44 11.10.46*

*Posthumous award

   
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