EE176 QR-M

A Lancaster B.III of No. 61 Squadron flying from RAF Skellingthorpe, EE176 was christened ‘Mickey the Moocher’ after the Walt Disney mouse painted on its nose, hauling a bomb trolley above a long row of mission symbols. One of only about thirty-five Lancaster ‘centurions’ to pass 100 operations, it flew an estimated 115 or more sorties — over Berlin, the Ruhr and the Normandy battlefront, including operations on D-Day — and survived them all.