Johnny Walker

Avro Lancaster  Mk.1 built at Metropolitan Vickers plant at Trafford Park Manchester.  She was assigned code number W4964 and on 12th April 1943 was sent to 9 Squadron at RAF Bardney, Lincolnshire.  She was named WS-J.
 
She flew a total of 107 missions - but the photograph shows 104. The bomb tally has two special markings - the 71st is the D-Day marking  and the 100th was a Tall Boy which Johnny dropped on the Tirpitz. She is widely accepted a having sunk the Tirpitz.
 
She had been one of over 70 Lancasters delivered to 9 Squadron in 1943. Apart from one other, all of the other aircraft were lost except for WSJ and her sister EE136 WS/R Spirit of Russia.
 
The extra markings also tell a story -  4 DFM’s; 3 DFC’s;  1 year service chevron; 3 wound stripes; a 1939-1945 star ribbon; a swastika for a kill; a searchlight and a Russian star - when she landed in Russia on the way to the rendezvous with the Tirpitz.
 
 
The original aircraft photograph:


Panel is priced at 175 GBP plus P&P.



The panel is 70 cm long x 50 cm high.

It is made from 5 separate pieces of aluminium sheet.

The panel represents the aircraft between formers  B and G.