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Every Second Counts - The Dambusters by Philip West. (AP) Wing Commander Guy Gibson and crew have just released their Upkeep mine against their primary target The Mohne dam. Wg. Cdr. Gibson went on to receive the Victoria Cross after leading 19 Lancasters on this historic mission to the Ruhr dams. Operation Chastise gave the nation a great boost in confidence during 1943 and honoured the brave men of 617 Squadron who carried out this dangerous mission. Item Code : DHM1635AP Every Second Counts - The Dambusters by Philip West. (AP) - This Edition Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price! TYPE EDITION DETAILS SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS YOUR PRICE PURCHASING ARTIST PROOF Signed limited edition of 40 artist proofs. Paper size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) Grayston, Raymond E + Artist : Philip West Signature(s) value alone : £65 £60 Off! Now : £240.00 SAVE MONEY WITH OUR DISCOUNT DOUBLE PRINT PACKS! Buy With : Operation Chastise - The Dambusters by Philip West. (AP) for £320 - Save £280 Buy With : Operation Chastise - The Night They Broke the Dams by Ivan Berryman. (AP) for £220 - Save £245 All prices on our website are displayed in British Pounds Sterling

Other editions of this item : Every Second Counts - The Dambusters by Philip West. DHM1635 TYPE EDITION DETAILS SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS YOUR PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 100 prints. Paper size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) Johnson, George L + Artist : Philip West Signature(s) value alone : £45 £50 Off! Now : £150.00 VIEW EDITION... PRINT Signed limited edition of 50 prints. Paper size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) Artist : Philip West £125.00 VIEW EDITION... General descriptions of types of editions :

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Sergeant Raymond E. Grayston (deceased) *Signature Value : £65	Ray Grayston had been serving in 50 Squadron when he was posted to 617 Squadron in March 1943. The flight engineer of Les Knights Lancaster AJ-N, they attacked and successfully breached the Eder Dam, Ray was shot down on 16th September 1943, and was taken to Stalag Luft III as a POW. Sadly, we have learned that Ray Grayston passed away on 15th April 2010.

The Aircraft :
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Lancaster	The Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' "Operation Gomorrah" in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992.

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