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How Lancasters unknowingly led the way on D-Day 

As the bombs rained down from Lancaster ‘J-Jig’ just before midnight on June 5, 1944, Patrick Otter recounted in the June 2014 issue of FlyPast how the crew had no idea they were unleashing the opening salvo of D-Day.

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GEORGE

PATRICK OTTER PROFILES THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL’S W4783,...

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INSPIRATION

WHEN AIRFIX LAUNCHED A MODEL LANCASTER, ‘G-FOR-GEORGE’ WAS...

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FIVE-FIFTY

PATRICK OTTER DESCRIBES 550 SQUADRON’S TRIO OF ‘CENTENARIAN’...