| Caption | Prime Minister John Curtin exiting from Lancaster bomber 'G for George', RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, circa May 1944 ww2dbase | |||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseAustralian War Memorial | |||||||
| Identification Code | UK1300 | |||||||
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| Photos at Same Place | Brookenby, England, United Kingdom | |||||||
| Added By | C. Peter Chen | |||||||
| Added Date | 19 Sep 2012 | |||||||
| Licensing | Public Domain |
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| Lat/Long | 53.4458, -0.2089 |
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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win the war by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country!"George Patton, 31 May 1944
18 Nov 2014 07:17:14 AM
While he was at Binbrook the Australian Prime Minister, Mr John Curtin, who was on a morale-boosting visit for Australians serving in Great Britain, was shown over the squadron's veteran G-George, which by then had completed 90 trips with 460 squadron. The aircraft was flown to Australia in October 1944 and today is displayed in the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra. It is interesting to note that no other Lancaster which served with 460 Squadron exceeded 90 operations, a measure of the loss rate the squadron suffered while flying from Binbrook.