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both posted to no 141 squadron at ford in sussex. the commanding officer was w/cdr j.r.d. braham d.s.o**, d.f.c**, a.f.c., croix de guerre. the squadron moved to predannack in cornwall where they started operations in beaufighters mk is. while there, doug and steve carried out 'instep' operations over the bay of biscay and 'ranger' operations over brittany. they also carried out several air/sea rescue searches, providing cover in case of e boat attacks. in april 1943 the squadron (141) moved to wittering, northants and after being trained on 'serrate' radar operations at drem, in scotland, the two of them started on their long, consecutive, double tour of operations with 141 squadron on 'serrate bomber support' over germany and occupied europe. they started on beaufighters mk 1 and mk 6. however, 141 squadron went on to change to mosquitoes and moved to west raynham, norfolk in december 1943. the squadron became the first in 100 group, bomber command. doug was commissioned with steve as pilot officers in january 1944. during this time they did photographic research into radar jamming while on raids over germany. later that year, doug and steve, shot down in northern france a ju 88 and another near metz. on 4th of august both were awarded the d.f.c. and promoted to flying officers in september. they completed their consecutive double tour of operations with 141 squadron in october 1944, having operated continuously since march 1943, chalking up 69 operational sorties. on 13th october 1944 they were both posted as instructors to 51 o.t.u, a night fighter training unit at cranfield and twinwood farm, bedfordshire. five months later, in february 1945, they were posted overseas to the royal naval air station at gibraltar, where, with their mosquito, they carried out various forms of attack, high level bombing, dive bombing, torpedo and low level strafing, all simulated attacks on the new battle class destroyer h.m.s. barfleur. this was to test the destroyer's radar defences for its forthcoming part in the war against japan. it was in gibraltar that doug had the opportunity to fly the swordfish and the seafire. in july 1945 he and steve finally parted. doug was posted to no 306 m.u. allahabad in india to help sort out the trouble that mosquitoes were having with the unkind tropical atmosphere. it was there he tested a wide range of aircraft, including beaufighters and mosquitoes of different mks, also spitfires and hurricanes. in february 1946 he was promoted to flight lieutenant and posted to no 307 m.u. at lahore to be in charge of the test flight. here he tested mosquitoes, beaufighters, dakotas, spitfires, austers, vengeances, dominies, expeditors and arguses. it was at lahore that he flew professor p.s. gill, who was researching into the behaviour of cosmic rays. this required flying to almost the maximum height of the mosquito. single vendor collection. good condition. we combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. uk postage from £5.99, eu from £7.99, rest of world from £9.99."},"estimateMax":6,"lotNumber":"28","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/70111/lot/267726/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":4,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:59:29.599Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£4 - £6","currency":"GBP","id":267726,"category":{"en":"WW2 Fighter pilot"},"estimateMin":4},{"startPrice":4,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/267727/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"ww2 banff wing flt lt h a corbin cgm 248 sqn signed de havilland mosquito bookplate biography card. harold corbin joined the raf in november 1940 and was sent to the united states to train as a pilot. on completion he returned to england as a sergeant and after several positions was posted to 235 squadron at raf portreath flying operations on beaufighters. he completed many missions attacking various ports and enemy shipping on the french coast and in the bay of biscay. in 1944 he converted onto mosquitos and joined 248 squadron at raf banff, part of the banff strike wing. the banff wing was to become immortalised for undertaking some of the most dangerous and concentrated attacks on german surface vessels and u-boats in the north sea and on the norwegian coastline. he was awarded the cgm in august 1944 and was given a full commission in december 1944. he had flown as co-pilot / observer with maurice webb from 1943 until the end of the war. single vendor collection. good condition. we combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. uk postage from £5.99, eu from £7.99, rest of world from 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wallis designed \"highball\" bomb, he then moved to 248 sqn, part of the famous banff strike wing, flying mosquitos out of scotland to attack shipping and the scandinavian coast. single vendor collection. good condition. we combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. uk postage from £5.99, eu from £7.99, rest of world from £9.99."},"estimateMax":6,"lotNumber":"33","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/70111/lot/267729/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":4,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:59:29.605Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£4 - £6","currency":"GBP","id":267729,"category":{"en":"WW2 Fighter pilot"},"estimateMin":4},{"startPrice":8,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/267730/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2026-02-18","available":false,"description":{"en":"ww2 81 missions sqn ldr w lucas dfc mid sqn signed de havilland mosquito bookplate biography card. born in 1917, bill lucas volunteered for aircrew early in 1940 and after training as a fighter pilot he became, due to the high demand, a bomber pilot and joined 9 squadron (wellingtons) in august 1941. after 14 missions over germany bill converted to stirlings and completed a further 26 operations, this time with 15 squadron at wyton. after two years instructing at 19 otu kinloss he was selected to join pathfinder force in october 1944 to fly mosquitoes with 162 squadron at bourn, cambridgeshire, where he remained until war end to complete 41 more missions making 81 in total. bill attained the rank of squadron leader and was awarded the dfc and a mention in despatches. the most memorable of his missions must be the first 1000 bomber raid on cologne on may 30, 1942, as this seems to have struck a lasting memory in the minds of the general public. after the war bill pursued a career in the insurance industry and also began to pick up the pieces of a serious athletic activity with the belgrave harriers which resulted in selection for the 5000 metres at the olympic games at wembley in 1948, but at the age of 32 he was not in his own words 'very successful'. bill says his greatest regret was missing the games in helsinki in 1940 and the cancelled games in 1944. 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a chap called reynolds - was slumped forward on the controls. i think it was the very last round that killed him. it was really unfortunate. his luck had run out. then the aircraft went into a steep dive. despite having never flown an aircraft in his life before that moment, the young airman - paid one shilling and sixpence per day extra to fill in as part-time air crew - took charge. he said : from that moment the only thing going through my mind was survival. everything happened so quickly, and we had to get the heck out of there. i managed to pull the pilot's body off his seat and get the aircraft under control. but we still had to get home and land the thing. my gunner, hank, sent a message back to base saying: 'we're in dire trouble here, the observer is flying the aircraft.' lo and behold, when we got back to base there was whole gallery of people, cars, ambulances and fire tenders all lined up waiting for the ultimate - but it didn't happen. i had spent a long time watching pilots and made a textbook landing. we came down in a shower of dust. perhaps i was a bit over-confident. the air officer commanding the base apparently said: 'if that guy can fly an aircraft without a pilot's course, let's send him on a pilot's course.' he was presented with his dfm by george vi. the experience led him to train as a pilot at no 4 sfts raf habbaniyah, where the no 6 war course were heavily engaged in operations to raise the siege of the base from the iraqi army. he was finally awarded his wings in may 1941. on return to the uk he served with 501 squadron on combat duties on spitfire mk v's until injured as a result of enemy action. on return to flying duties he was posted to 602 squadron flying mkv's and mkix's until june 1944. in february 1944, he claimed a high altitude victory by destroying a me.109 f at an altitude of 35,000 feet, flying a spitfire mk.vii h.f. single vendor collection. good condition. we combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. uk postage from £5.99, eu from £7.99, rest of world from £9.99."},"estimateMax":6,"lotNumber":"89","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/70111/lot/267770/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":4,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:59:32.779Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£4 - 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'i had just turned 18 when we went on a gunnery school course. after that six-week training, we usually went for a further three months training to an operational training unit. it so happened that 9 squadron had just converted from wellingtons to lancasters and they were 14 air gunners short on the squadron, so they posted us from gunnery school after six weeks' training straight to the squadron. 'when i got there, i was approached by a flt lt stubbs, who said to me: 'you're my new gunner. we've got a gunner already but he's been flying wellingtons and he doesn't want to be a rear gunner. he wants to go in the mid-upper turret. you'll be the rear gunner.' but, he said, on my first raid, the best thing for me to do would be to go on the mid-upper turret. 'that way you can see exactly what's going on,' he said. 'my first raid in lancasters with 9 squadron was to dusseldorf on september 10th, 1942. every time we went on a bombing raid, we had to do an air test first. we would test our guns, test the bomb sight, test the hydraulics, test the engines, and when you landed, if everything was ok, you told the engineers that everything was fine for the raid. as we landed, the armourers arrived with the bomb load. i still remember now, it was one 4,000 pounder - one huge, fat bomb - and 1,200 incendiaries. 'our bomb aimer was an 'old sweat'. we used to call him 'the old boy'. he was 26. he said that with that bomb load we had, we were definitely going to the happy valley. when we returned to the mess, we got ready to go to the briefing. we were briefed and the curtain came down off the target and there it was - dusseldorf. 'that's right,' said the bomb aimer to me, 'that's where we are going, dusseldorf.' most of our raids were on the ruhr valley and the reason why i am alive now is because - i don't know why - but i never went to berlin. i wouldn't be talking to you now if i had been to berlin. i can assure you. 'we put all our gear on. it took about half an hour for the air gunner to get dressed with all the clothing. i clambered into the mid-upper turret and off we went. as we crossed the dutch coast, i could see we were about 1,400 or 1,500 feet over the coast. i could see a huge number of lights coming up. far below us there was light flak, in beautiful colours, but it never touched us because we were a little too high. 'we crossed over holland and the bomb aimer said: 'we are approaching the target, skipper,' so i decided to swing my turret around and have a look. i was absolutely shocked by what i saw. i could not believe my eyes seeing what was in front of me. the flak, the guns, the lights, the search lights. it was incredible and i was really, really, really frightened. the plane was bouncing about. then the bomb aimer said: 'bomb doors open' and in we go straight and level. 'on my left i could see an aircraft on fire going down, and one below us i could see exploding. and i thought to myself: 'we're in for something here!'. i could not believe that we were going to fly through this huge explosion. but we went through it. then the pilot was talking to the bomb aimer, and the bomb aimer said: 'we have missed the target, skipper. we're going to have to go round again.' and i thought: 'dear, oh dear, we've got to go all the way round, come back and go through all that again.' which we did. and on the second run, we dropped our bombs. 'bomb doors closed. on the way home. flying back, there were problems with the oxygen, so the skipper - he was 21 and on his second tour, and old hand - took us down lower. we had to drop below 10,000 feet, and as we crossed the dutch coast, the light flak opened up. it was absolutely hair-raising. there were hundreds and hundreds of these lights flashing past us but, strangely enough, not one of them hit us. 'when we got back, we landed and had a look at our aircraft. there were about 10 or 15 holes, two or three inches wide, across the fuselage, flak holes caused by shrapnel from the shells. we must have caught them on the dutch coast. we were lucky but i've seen much worse. we went in for a briefing, had a coffee and went to bed. that was my first raid. later, i found out, that our skipper, who had finished his tour, unfortunately got killed during training a couple of weeks later. single vendor collection. good condition. we combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. uk postage from £5.99, eu from £7.99, rest of world from £9.99."},"estimateMax":6,"lotNumber":"136","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/70111/lot/267807/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":4,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:59:47.167Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£4 - £6","currency":"GBP","id":267807,"category":{"en":"WW2 Bomber Command"},"estimateMin":4},{"startPrice":4,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/267808/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"ww2 raf pilot flt lt d h ince dfc 2 sqn signed spitfire bookplate. 7 x 5 inch limited edition printed card with border, perfect for matting or use as bookplate. david henry gason ince dfc (23 march 1921 - 2 august 2017) was a royal air force pilot of the second world war in hawker typhoons who flew nearly 150 sorties and was awarded the distinguished flying cross. he flew the only raid in europe to use napalm, near arnhem in april 1945. in 1958 he flew an olympia 419 glider from lavenham, suffolk, to land's end, a distance of 315 miles and a uk glider distance record at that time. ince participated in what is thought to be the only operational use of napalm in the european campaign. on 12 april 1945, napalm was used against a german strongpoint near arnhem in the netherlands. the eight-foot canister of napalm missed the target but is believed to have damaged the morale of the german troops. of the attack, ince noted, \"the fiery mass sprayed forward and upwards, in a cascade of incandescent reds and yellows which threatened to engulf my tail.\". single vendor collection. good condition. we combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. uk postage from £5.99, eu from £7.99, rest of world from £9.99."},"estimateMax":6,"lotNumber":"137","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/70111/lot/267808/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":4,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:59:47.168Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£4 - 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10 august 2019) was a royal air force bomber pilot who transitioned to a career as a test pilot for various firms. on 30 may 1949, he ejected from the experimental armstrong whitworth a.w.52 flying wing in a \"primitive\" martin-baker mk.1 seat, becoming the first person to eject from a british aircraft in an emergency. on the night of 30-31 may 1942, he flew wellington s9932 of 22 otu on an op to cologne,[7] the first 1,000 plane raid, in which 600 acres (300 acres of the city centre) were damaged, 13,000 homes destroyed with another 6,000 badly damaged, leaving some 45,000 people homeless. the city suffered 5,000 casualties, including 469 deaths. of the 1,046 bombers involved, \"39 were lost - primarily to night fighters. this represented a loss of 4 percent which was considered the maximum bomber command could sustain.\"[8] on 1-2 june 1942, piloted wellington s9932 of 22 otu on an op to essen. single vendor collection. good condition. we combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. uk postage from £5.99, eu from £7.99, rest of world from £9.99."},"estimateMax":6,"lotNumber":"150","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/70111/lot/267820/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles_BooksMagazinesPaper","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":4,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:59:40.329Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£4 - 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'i had just turned 18 when we went on a gunnery school course. after that six-week training, we usually went for a further three months training to an operational training unit. it so happened that 9 squadron had just converted from wellingtons to lancasters and they were 14 air gunners short on the squadron, so they posted us from gunnery school after six weeks' training straight to the squadron. 'when i got there, i was approached by a flt lt stubbs, who said to me: 'you're my new gunner. we've got a gunner already but he's been flying wellingtons and he doesn't want to be a rear gunner. he wants to go in the mid-upper turret. you'll be the rear gunner.' but, he said, on my first raid, the best thing for me to do would be to go on the mid-upper turret. 'that way you can see exactly what's going on,' he said. 'my first raid in lancasters with 9 squadron was to dusseldorf on september 10th, 1942. every time we went on a bombing raid, we had to do an air test first. we would test our guns, test the bomb sight, test the hydraulics, test the engines, and when you landed, if everything was ok, you told the engineers that everything was fine for the raid. as we landed, the armourers arrived with the bomb load. i still remember now, it was one 4,000 pounder - one huge, fat bomb - and 1,200 incendiaries. 'our bomb aimer was an 'old sweat'. we used to call him 'the old boy'. he was 26. he said that with that bomb load we had, we were definitely going to the happy valley. when we returned to the mess, we got ready to go to the briefing. we were briefed and the curtain came down off the target and there it was - dusseldorf. 'that's right,' said the bomb aimer to me, 'that's where we are going, dusseldorf.' most of our raids were on the ruhr valley and the reason why i am alive now is because - i don't know why - but i never went to berlin. i wouldn't be talking to you now if i had been to berlin. i can assure you. 'we put all our gear on. it took about half an hour for the air gunner to get dressed with all the clothing. i clambered into the mid-upper turret and off we went. as we crossed the dutch coast, i could see we were about 1,400 or 1,500 feet over the coast. i could see a huge number of lights coming up. far below us there was light flak, in beautiful colours, but it never touched us because we were a little too high. 'we crossed over holland and the bomb aimer said: 'we are approaching the target, skipper,' so i decided to swing my turret around and have a look. i was absolutely shocked by what i saw. i could not believe my eyes seeing what was in front of me. the flak, the guns, the lights, the search lights. it was incredible and i was really, really, really frightened. the plane was bouncing about. then the bomb aimer said: 'bomb doors open' and in we go straight and level. 'on my left i could see an aircraft on fire going down, and one below us i could see exploding. and i thought to myself: 'we're in for something here!'. i could not believe that we were going to fly through this huge explosion. but we went through it. then the pilot was talking to the bomb aimer, and the bomb aimer said: 'we have missed the target, skipper. we're going to have to go round again.' and i thought: 'dear, oh dear, we've got to go all the way round, come back and go through all that again.' which we did. and on the second run, we dropped our bombs. 'bomb doors closed. on the way home. flying back, there were problems with the oxygen, so the skipper - he was 21 and on his second tour, and old hand - took us down lower. we had to drop below 10,000 feet, and as we crossed the dutch coast, the light flak opened up. it was absolutely hair-raising. there were hundreds and hundreds of these lights flashing past us but, strangely enough, not one of them hit us. 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