W4964 WS-J

Avro Lancaster B.I · "Johnnie Walker"

Code lettersWS-J
SquadronNo. 9 Squadron
MarkB.I
FateSurvived the war
Into service12 April 1943

Notes

Carrying the ‘Johnnie Walker — Still Going Strong’ whisky figure as nose art, W4964 of No. 9 Squadron flew from RAF Bardney from April 1943 and completed 106 operations. Its 100th, on 15 September 1944, was the Tallboy attack on the battleship Tirpitz at anchor in Norway’s Alten Fjord, mounted via a forward base in Russia. Retired to instructional duties at the end of 1944, a section of its fuselage survives at the Newark Air Museum.

Photographs

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Flying Officer A E Manning and his crew gather by their aircraft, Avro Lancaster B Mark I, W4964 'WS-J', of No. 9 Squadron RAF, shortly after their return to Bardney, Lincolnshire, in the early hours of 6 January 1944, after raiding Stettin, Germany.
ⓘ licence & creditStanley Devon / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CH11972.jpgView source & full licence →

No sorties recorded for this airframe yet.

Source: RAF Museum — crew of 9 Squadron Lancaster W4964 'Johnny Walker' →