Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian. (AP) CAM1 he peels round to line

he peels round to line up his second Me109 to add two more victories to his remarkable tally

British Special Forces were dispatched to pluck the stranded workers from the desert and fly them to the safety of Malta

clears a path through a minefield to allow tanks of 27th Armoured Brigade

Group Captain Billy Drake (deceased)

Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian. (AP) CAM1 he peels round to lineNT0318AP. Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian. When No 49 Squadron Lancasters bombed the S. S. barracks at Berchtesgaden on 25th April 1945, its aircrews completed a campaign that had begun 5 and a half years earlier in September, 1939. From the very beginning, 49 Squadron were in the thick of the action with one of their pilots, Roderick Learoyd, winning Bomber Commands first Victoria Cross. In 1942 it was Lancasters of 49 Squadron that led the epic