COBI Avro Lancaster B Mk1/3 kit

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COBI-5759
Avro Lancaster B Mk.III, 300 Squadron RAF
HISTORICAL COLLECTION WWII
1643 pieces
1 figures
Scale 1:48
Age group 9+

Avro Lancaster B Mk.III was a British four-engined strategic bomber that was one of the most heavily  night time bombers used in the Second World War, with over 156,000 sorties. A long unobstructed bomb bay meant that the Lancaster could take the largest bombs used by the RAF. No. 300 Squadron was formed at Bramcote, Warwickshire, on 1st July 1940, as a bomber squadron.
It was the first Polish-manned bomber squadron to form in the RAF with most of its original crews having previously served in Polish fighter units. The squadron was originally in No.6 (Training) Group, but in August 1941, transferred to No.1 (Bomber) Group and simultaneously made the first of what proved to be several moves during its career to RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire. It attacked 133 cities and major targets, invasion landing craft concentrations, ports and harbours, shipyards and U-boat building yards, airfields, industrial objectives, flying-bomb dumps and
launching sites, fortifications, concentrations of troops and Panzer divisions; and it also laid more than 1,400 mines in enemy waters.
When it had finished its offensive against the enemy No. 300 took part in Operation Manna - the dropping of food supplies to the Dutch (152 tons); Exodus - repatriation of British ex-POWs to Great Britain; Dodge - the transport of British troops from Italy to Great Britain; and the carrying of Red Cross supplies for liberated Poles in German concentration camps.