Updated 30 December 2020 This is Avro Lancaster B I serial R5727 sitting at Victory Aircraft in Malton, Canada in August 1942. Contract B62974/40, this aircraft was originally allocated to 44 Sdqn …
Great photo!
As mentioned above R5727 (the Lanc) was sent to Canada to be used as a pattern/model for the Canadian version Mk.X. She was flown across the Atlantic in August 1942 The photo could be from the late summer (August-Sept.) of 1942, showing airplanes of different types to be used by RCAF.
Ground crew of No. 178 Squadron RAF use a crane to load aerial mines onto a B-24 Liberator B Mk. III at
Celone, Italy. The Liberator B Mk. III was roughly equivalent to the B-24D in US service.
The Pilot and Crew of a German Heinkel III reconnaissance plane flew over the Firth of Forth, Scotland on October 28, 1939, and was attacked by Royal Air Force Spitfires and crash landed on a hillside in East Lothian. R.A.F. personnel are seen inspecting the damaged plane. This was the first German plane to have been brought down on British soil in this war.
These American-made bombardment planes, built for the British, were moved a step nearer war when they were ferried from Floyd Bennett airport in New York, on October 28, 1939, to Staten Island from where they will be shipped to the war zone when, as and if the House concurs with the Senate repeal of the arms embargo. These warbirds, ready to fly except for the wing tips and tail control surfaces, can be put into the air within a few hours work.