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The Avro Lancaster

80th Anniversary
  • ISBN-13: 9781912918799
  • Publisher: SONA BOOKS
    Imprint: SONA BOOKS
  • By Mike Lepine
  • Price: AUD $52.99
  • Stock: 17 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 12/10/2022
  • Format: Hardback (270.00mm X 210.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 750g
  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
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The Avro Lancaster was one of the most important airplanes of WWII. This legendary bomber first saw action in 1942. Powered by 4 Merlin engines, it could deliver a huge payload and was the only aircraft to carry the Tallboy and Grand Slam earthquake bombs as well as the Upkeep ‘bouncing’ bomb on Operation Chastise-the famous Dam Busters raid. At the height of production, over 1.1 million men and women were employed making ‘Lancs’; more service personnel were involved flying and maintaining them than any other British aircraft, ever. Mainly operational as a Night Bomber over Nazi Germany, the Lancaster was supremely adaptable and they were used on anti-submarine patrols, photo-reconnaissance missions, as aerial refuelling tankers and post-war, transatlantic passenger airliners. Lancasters completed an average of 21 bombing missions before being lost and the average age of their 7 man crews was 22 years.

Mike Lepine is a Sunday Times No1 best-selling author. He has written some thirty-five books and has been published throughout the world from America to Finland, and from France to Japan. He has also worked extensively in television in programming as diverse as the
arts, consumer rights and comedy. For many years the Editor of the Aviation & Military Video Club, Mike was instrumental with DD Home Entertainment in bringing much rare archival film footage to the public for the very first time.

2022 marks the 80th Anniversary of the first Lancaster in service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942.
• The Lancaster is the most famous plane of WWII. Its groundbreaking design and staying power on missions gave the British a superior advantage during the bombing campaigns in the later





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