British Vickers Wellington medium bomber in flight

(British Vickers Wellington medium bomber in flight (Colour Litho Print) on Canvas 

Ready to Hang 80cm x 40cm

Rare with original screw from Aircraft attached.

Inscription at bottom left

RCAF Based at Mildenhall 1942 

419 Moose Squadron

Attached original screw from Aircraft bottom left.

First Mission 11 January 1942, 2 Wellington IC s from Mildenhall bombed Brest, France; W/C Foulton and crew in X9748 VR-B, P/O Cottier and crew in Z1145 VR-A.

Summary Sorties: 4002.

• Operational/Non-operational Flying Hours: 25,386/8613.
• Bombs dropped: 13,417 tons.
• Victories: Aircraft: 10 destroyed, 6 damged.
• Casualties:
  • Operational: 129 air­craft; 1404 aircrew, of whom 310 were killed, 867 missing, 187 POW, 40 evaded capture.
  • Non-operational: 2 aircraft; 15 personnel, of whom 10 killed, 3 injured, 2 died.

Honours and Awards: I VC, 4 DSOs, 1 MC, 3 bars to DFC, 150 DFCs, 1 CGM, 35 DFMs.

Battle Honours:

• English Channel and North Sea 1942-1944.
• Baltic 1942-1944.
• Fortress Europe 1942-1944.
• France and Germany 1944-1945: Biscay Ports 1942-1944, Ruhr 1942-1945, Berlin 1943-1944, German Ports 1942-1945, Normandy 1944, Rhine. Biscay 1942; 1944. 

(1) 0n 12 June 1944, during a raid on Cambrai, France, Lancaster B.Mk.X KB726 VR-A, of which Mynarski was the mid-upper gunner, was set aflame by a German night fighter. The captain ordered the crew to aban­don the aircraft, but the rear gunner was trapped and Mynarski made every effort to free him, but was unsuccessful. The rear gunner finally persuaded him to bail out and, although still trapped in his turret, survived the crash and became a prisoner of war. Mynarski died in a German hospital of severe burns. After the war, when details of his efforts to free the rear gunner became known, he was posthumously awarded the VC.
(2) Derived from the nickname of the squadrons first commander, W/C John Moose Fulton, of Kamloops,