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On the night of 8/9 July 1942 Avro Lancaster I 'R5868 - PO-S' conducted her first operational sortie with 83 Squadron, against Wilhelmshaven. By war’s end she had survived, one of only 35 Lancasters to have completed over 100 sorties.

Lancaster of No. 103 Squadron RAF pauses on the flarepath at Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire, before taking off for a raid on Duisburg, Germany. 26th March 1943.

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Celebrating the return of a Lancaster bomber (Avro Lancaster Mk.Ic; serial number R5868; tail number PO-S) named 'S for Sugar' from No. 467 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at RAF Waddington from its 100th combat sortie.

The 100th sortie took place on the night of 11/12 May 1944, to bomb targets in Belgium.

This aircraft is the oldest Lancaster that has survived to this day. It was laid down at the factory as the Avro Manchester, but was completed as a Lancaster. In service since June 1942, it was initially part of No. 83 Squadron RAF and had its own name "Q-Queenie".

This aircraft was the first heavy bomber of the Royal Air Force to make 100 combat sorties, and during the war it made a total of 137 combat sorties. The same aircraft in another photo . May 1944

Avro Lancaster III code BH-D no. LM488 of the 300th Bombardment Division ‘Masovian Land’

Two members of the crew of a Lancaster from No. 115 Squadron RAF examine the rear of their aircraft, where the rear turret, with its unfortunate gunner, was sheared off by bombs dropped from an aircraft flying above during a raid on Cologne on the night of 28/29 June 1943. #WW2