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Big fast bomber and you name it Sniffles -))
Great photos as always Snautzer, but the phantom erroneous caption writer is at it again. The Anson T.20 was redesignated from an order for Anson C.19s placed in 1946. The T.20 was a navigation and bombing trainer for use in Rhodesia and indeed 60 were built, but being of the post-war variety it had a different nose section to previous aircraft. This is an Anson C.19; note the glazed nose, which was standard on the T.20.
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The photo posted above shows an Anson Mk.I nose. Take a look at the windows in the bomb aimer's position and compare with the picture below of the interior of the airworthy Mk.I in New Zealand.
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From the outside. The landing light is missing from the posted photo. The windscreen of this Anson is different from the one above as the very earliest production batches had the sharper sloped windscreen, but it was replaced on subsequent aircraft owing to distortion.
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Maybe its named after the pilot's girlfriend...
Orig. Foto Fesselballon Beobachter über PICQUIGNY Amiens Somme Frankreich 1940 | eBayObservation balloon (much used early years Ost front and later on quite parts of front) Im Korb eines Fesselballons. Orig-Pressephoto, um 1939 | eBay
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