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I think the bomber in the 3rd photo is a DB-3 or a Il-4 (most probably the last one)
 

Not many men with a VC, DSO and bar, and DFC and bar.

Not that many men with DFCs, though everyone in this photograph has earned one.

From left to right.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, VC, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar.
Pilot Officer P M Spafford, bomb aimer (an Aussie, you can tell by his darker uniform).
Flight Lieutenant R E G Hutchinson (from Liverpool), wireless operator.
Pilot Officer G A Deering (a Canadian of Scottish origins) and Flying Officer H T Taerum (a Canadian of Norwegian extraction), gunners.

Only Hutchinson had previously flown regularly with Gibson.

It's representative of the multinational nature of many Bomber Command crews.
 

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