As well as the OBE and DFC, Group Captain Whittaker's collection includes a 1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal and a War Medal. The lot is expected to reach £14,000 and ...

The Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar were awarded to Flight Lieutenant John Vere 'Hoppy' Hopgood, a 21-year-old who flew one of the 19 Lancaster bombers in the renowned mission to destroy three ...

A collection of medals belonging to a Newcastle airman who made aviation history with the famous 617 Dambuster squadron is to go on sale ... engineer to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) ...

London — The last surviving crew member of a British Royal Air Force squadron that targeted Nazi Germany's industrial heartland in World War II has died aged 101, media said Thursday. George ...

Mrs Elmes, from Wareham, Dorset, took possession of her uncle's DFC and Bar, wartime letters and RAF logbooks four years ago after his sister Marna died. She published his biography chronicling ...

In 2003 and 2013 thousands watched a vintage Lancaster fly over the British reservoirs that were the testing ground for the famous Dambuster raids of the Second World War. The flypasts were ...

The medals of a Dambuster from Blackpool whose bomb breached ... earning his Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in the process. Edward’s medals and memorabilia were auctioned at Spink & Son ...

In addition to the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), personally bestowed on him by King George V1, Munro had ten other medals and was made a Knight of the ...

He became a “Dambuster Hero” after he volunteered in the RAF and was selected as rear gunner on a Lancaster Bomber piloted by Squadron Leader Melvin “Dinghy” Young DFC, call sign AJ-A ...

Tallboy bombs bursting around the Tirpitz, photographed from Joplin’s aircraft After training to fly bombers, he and his crew joined the famous 617 “Dambuster ... him a mock DFC, saying ...

The last surviving World War Two Dambuster has died at the age of 101. Sq Ldr George "Johnny" Johnson died peacefully in his sleep in Bristol on Wednesday, his family confirmed. Mr Johnson was a ...