RAF - International Bomber Command Centre https://internationalbcc.co.uk/product-tag/raf/ Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:59:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://internationalbcc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-LMxXRao7_400x400-32x32.jpg RAF - International Bomber Command Centre https://internationalbcc.co.uk/product-tag/raf/ 32 32 Les Rutherford Cards (Pack of 5) https://internationalbcc.co.uk/product/les-rutherford-cards-pack-of-5/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:18:56 +0000 https://internationalbcc.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=165193 Les Rutherford has always found solace in his art, whether when serving as a Bomb Aimer, a prisoner in Stalag Luft 11 or post war. Sadly his sight is diminishing because of Macular Degeneration. Despite this, aged 99, Les drew the beautiful picture on the front from a photo using a magnifying glass.

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  • 5 Cards
  • 5 Envelopes
  • Blank inside

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    ]]>         From Coningsby to the Far East.. and Back Again https://internationalbcc.co.uk/product/from-coningsby-to-the-far-east-and-back-again/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:26:35 +0000 https://internationalbcc.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=165055 Author Elizabeth McElwee charts the experience of Flt Lt George William Milson DFC from joining the RAF Volunteer Reserve as a trainee pilot in 1939, through his time on operations from the UK, Western Desert and in the Far East,

     

    He became one of the thousands of Far East Prisoners of War [FEPOWs] and spent three and a half years in captivity in various POW camps until the Japanese surrendered in 1945.

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  • Author: Elizabeth McElwee
  • ISBN: 978-1-7384536-0-3
  • Pages: 240
  • Format: Hardback

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    ]]>         Mission Completed- Framed Veteran-signed Limited Edition print https://internationalbcc.co.uk/product/mission-completed-framed-veteran-signed-limited-edition-print/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:30:12 +0000 https://internationalbcc.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=164853 Veteran-signed Limited Edition print now available through IBCC

     

    MISSION COMPLETED

    by Simon Smith

    Day breaks at the end of a gruelling operation during the autumn of 1944. The returning crew are relieved to be safely home at their Lincolnshire base whilst their mighty Lancaster shows fresh scars from an arduous mission over occupied Europe.

    This dramatic piece acts as a lasting tribute to all those who served with Bomber Command during WWII and has been autographed for posterity by the artist along with two highly-respected Lancaster aircrew:

    Flight Lieutenant FRANK WOLFSON DFC

    Pilot with 149 Sqn

    Group Captain WILLIAM FARQUHARSON DFC

    Pilot with 115 & 195 Sqns

    UK mainland only. Please contact us to arrange purchase and shipping for overseas.

    This item will be shipped direct by the supplier.

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  • Material: Wooden frame in grey colour.
  • Size of Frame: Width 36 in
  • Height 26in.

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    ]]>         Rear Gunner Pathfinders https://internationalbcc.co.uk/product/rear-gunner-pathfinders/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:08:15 +0000 https://internationalbcc.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=164792 This is a Bomber Command story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small Perspex bubble of a 'Tail-End Charlie' rear gunner in a Lancaster.

    • Paperback, 200 pages.
    • ISBN: 9780907579274

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    ]]>     This is a Bomber Command story of the air war over Germany as seen from the small Perspex bubble of a ‘Tail-End Charlie’ rear gunner in a Lancaster. Flying first with 626 squadron, and later 156 (Pathfinder) squadron, Ron Smith flew 65 operations and recorded them with the intensity brought on by the isolation of being cocooned in his lonely gun turret.

    “Suddenly we were over the Big City . . . after long hours of searching the night sky from the coast, to be suddenly propelled into the brilliant hell over Berlin produced a freezing of the mind . . . flak sliced up through the broken illuminated clouds, ascending gracefully to stream past the turret. A Lancaster slid across at right angles with a single fighter just behind it, as if attached by an invisible thread . . . the city far below was bubbling and boiling, splashes of fire opening out as the blockbusters pierced this terrible brew.”

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    ]]>         RAF Colouring Book https://internationalbcc.co.uk/product/raf-colouring-book/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:08:12 +0000 https://internationalbcc.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=164791 The RAF Colouring Book is the perfect gift for children and RAF enthusiasts alike, and will keep them occupied and educated for hours.

    • Paperback: 96 pages
    • First Published: 4 July 2018#
    • ISBN: 9780750988919
    • Size: 22 x 22 cm (approx.)

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    ]]>     The RAF Colouring Book is the perfect gift for children and RAF enthusiasts alike, and will keep them occupied and educated for hours.

    Formed in 1918, the Royal Air Force is the oldest independent air force in the world. This long history has seen operations conducted across a variety of terrains in vastly different aircraft, from biplanes to bombers, tail-draggers to delta wings, from fighters through to the surveillance and air mobility aircraft of today.

    This book charts the story of the RAF through its aircraft from the Sopwith Camel of World War I to the F35 Lightning of the 21st century, and via some of its key moments such as the Battle of Britain and Operation CHASTISE, the famous raid on the dams in and around the Ruhr valley in 1943.

     

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