Captain Richard Ernest Evans USAAF 1942

By kind permission of Cpt Evans’s daughter, Mrs Barbara Evans Kinnear, her father’s co-author.

This IWM photograph is captioned CH 10593. Low-level 'beat-up'. A Halifax II JB911/KN-X of No 77 Squadron roars low over an audience of appreciative 'erks' during air tests at Elvington Yorkshire July 1943.

With thanks to IWM for this wonderful insight into our ground and aircrews. KTW

1:2 This superb monument is in Almere, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Partly made with the engine of Short Stirling BK716 from 218 (Gold Coast) Sqn that was salvaged from the Markermeer. It flew from RAF Downham Market, Norfolk.
2:2 Amongst the wreckage were the remains of the crew (five British and two Canadian) who will be buried in Jonkerbos Military cemetery today. Source: Battlefields Experience, the link to which can be found in this Paper.

Heavy Raid Over Berlin © 2022 KTW © 2023 Eyes to the Skies

Slingsby T31 Kirby Cadet Mk III IC Eaglescott Airfield Devon in 2020

St Paul’s Cathedral, the Nation’s Capital, London 1940.