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501231E R Greenacre DFC
RAF G19 460 Squadron
I notice that Russell Thorburn has put up a small paragraph about his father W.F.Thorburn, who was in the crew of my uncle E.R.Greenacre with 460 Sqn, muster G19.Over the years I have done a fair bit of research on my uncle and would be happy to share whatever may be relevant with Russell Thorburn. For example, their Lancaster DV193 was badly damaged over Kassel on 22 October 1943, from my uncle's log book: "...hit by cannon, 2 gunners wounded and severe damage...'. I have the citation for my uncle's DFC awarded for this sortie and they clearly had a bad time of it.
DV193 was a 'lucky' aircraft as they did 21 raids in this aircraft, which was withdrawn from service in Dec 1944, but survived the war to end as an instructional airframe at St Athans. As DV193 was in a contract series delivered between May-Nov 1943 and was first flown by my uncle in August 1943, this aircraft had a life of about 18 months which was probably fairly remarkable for those times.
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