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Originally Posted by Andy in West Oz  Posted this before over on the dark side. |
To recap what Andy and I discussed before about David Bennett and the photograph that Andy posted - I discovered the same picture on another website:
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Below is a crew photograph (from a photocopy) from August 1943 of Plt. Off. Payne and his crew, in front of W5001 WS-Z. From left to right the crew are Sgt. P A S Twinn (Air Gunner - rear), Sgt. C A Gilbert (Flight Engineer), F/O E N Armstrong (Navigator), Plt. Off C Payne (Pilot), Sgt. F Robinson (W/Op.) Sgt. S C Young (Air Bomber) and F/Sgt. N O Bennett (RAAF Air Gunner - Mid Upper). The crew was transferred to help form 514 Squadron, flying Lancaster II's on 20 September 1943. They ended their tour with 514 in May 1944. Payne, Gilbert, Robinson and Twinn then did a second tour with 149 Squadron from February 1945 to the end of the war. Picture courtesy of Mr Twinn.
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http://www.hobley97.freeserve.co.uk/raf.htm
However, W5001 never flew with 9 Squadron and was in fact lost with 207 Squadron in May 1943 - it seems to have been a typo and the correct code should be W5011.
David and the rest of the crew subsequently transferred to 514 Squadron (from 9 Squadron) which has a great website:
http://www.514squadron.org/home/home.htm