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Ron Gard

Flight Sergeant Ron Gard After completing training as a Rear Gunner he was posted in September 1944 to join No,463 Squadron RAAF, part of No,5 Group RAF, based at Waddington in Lincolnshire. Equipped with Lancasters, he took part in raids over Germany and Norway but on the noght of 14th February 1945, on his 17th mission, his Lancaster was shot down over their target near Leipzig. After bailing out he was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a Prisoner of War in Nuremberg.



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The Bomber Boys by James Dietz. (C) SOLD OUT

On the night of 16 / 17 May 1943, in one of the most daring low-level missions of the war, the men of newly-formed 617 Squadron, under the command of Guy Gibson, attacked the great dams of the Ruhr. The story of their audacious raid gained the squad......

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Flight Sergeant Ron Gard

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