Outbound from Mildenhall by Ivan Berryman [Postcard]

Artist: Ivan Berryman [browse all Ivan Berryman]   

Aircraft Depicted: Stirling Bomber [other products featuring this aircraft]

Short Stirling III EH990 is depicted heading out over the North Sea on the evening of 7th October 1943, on a mine-laying sortie off the Frisian Islands. LS-K was piloted, on this occasion, by Fl/Sg Thomas Robertson Ewen, RAFVR on his first - and sadly only - mission as pilot, his aircraft falling victim to a marauding enemy night fighter.

Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)