The crew of an Avro Lancaster of No. 57 Squadron RAF eat their bacon and eggs at Scampton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid, February 1943. CH8806

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The crew of an Avro Lancaster of No. 57 Squadron RAF eat their bacon and eggs at Scampton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid, February 1943. CH8806

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The crew of an Avro Lancaster of No. 57 Squadron RAF eat their bacon and eggs at Scampton, Lincolnshire, after returning from a raid, February 1943.
Sergeant J B Mallett, Sergeant H H Turkentine and Sergeant R H P Roberts, flight engineer, bomb aimer and rear gunner, respectively, of an Avro Lancaster B Mark I of No. 57 Squadron RAF, eat breakfast in the Sergeants' Mess at Scampton, Lincolnshire, following their return from a night raid. All three were killed with the rest of the crew of Lancaster R5894 ' DX-T' ("T for Tommy") when it collided with high tension cables near Scampton upon returning from a raid on Berlin in the early morning of 2 March 1943.

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