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Kenneth Lucas

Name : Kenneth Lucas Died : January 2011

Ken Lucas joined the RAF in June 1940, and trained as ground crew for bomber Command. He was sent first to 49 Squadron at RAF Scampton, before transferring to 617 Squadron upon its formation, Involved in all the major servicing of the aircraft before the raid including fitting the motors that drove the belt that spun the bomb, and attaching the critical lamps to the underside of the aircraft. Sadly, Ken Lucas passed away in January 2011.

Artwork signed by this Pilot or Aircrew

The One That Broke The Dam by Ivan Berryman. (AP)

'O' Safe Home by Ivan Berryman. (AP)

Clipped Signature - Kenneth Lucas.

Operation Chastise - The Night They Broke the Dams by Ivan Berryman. (C)

Inbound to Target - The Dambusters by Robert Taylor.

Dambusters - The Impossible Mission by Robert Taylor. (AP)

Dambusters - The Morning After by Gerald Coulson.

Dambusters - Breaching the Eder Dam by Robert Taylor. (AP)

Breaching the Möhne by Anthony Saunders.

Low Pass Over the Möhne Dam by Anthony Saunders.

Bomb Away! The Third Assault by Robert Taylor.

The Dambusters - Last Moments of the Möhne Dam by Robert Taylor.

The Dambusters - Three Good Bounces by Robert Taylor. (AP)

Tractor Girl by David Pentland.

Topping Up by David Pentland.

Dam Defenders by David Pentland.

Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-N by David Pentland.

Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-L by David Pentland.

Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-G by David Pentland.

Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-P by David Pentland.

Tribute to the 617 Sqn Dambusters Crew of Lancaster AJ-A by David Pentland.

The Secret Weapon by David Pentland.

Aircraft for : Kenneth Lucas
A list of all aircraft associated with Kenneth Lucas. A profile page including a list of all art prints for the aircraft is available by clicking the aircraft name.
Aircraft	Info
Lancaster Click the name above to see prints featuring Lancaster aircraft. Manufacturer : Avro Production Began : 1942 Retired : 1963 Number Built : 7377	Lancaster The Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' Operation Gomorrah in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992.

Squadrons for : Kenneth Lucas
A list of all squadrons known to have been served with by Kenneth Lucas. A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name.
Squadron	Info
No.49 Sqn RAF Country : UK Founded : 15th April 1916 Fate : Disbanded 1st May 1965 Cave canem - Beware of the dog Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of No.49 Sqn RAF	No.49 Sqn RAF 49 Squadron was formed on 15th April 1916, during the First World War. In the course of the war, it flew DH4 and DH9 aircraft before disbanding in July 1919. Reformed in 1936, they flew Hind and Hampdens before war broke out in 1939. It was in a Hampden of 49 Sqn that Roderick Learoyd won the first Victoria Cross awarded to Bomber Command, when on the night of 12th August 1940, he and four other aircraft attempted to breach the heavily defended Dortmund-Ems canal. The squadron transferred to Manchesters and Lancasters, and after the war to Lincolns, before being disbanded once again on 1st August 1955. Less than a year later, on 1st May 1956, the squadron were reformed, equipped with Valiant V-Bombers of Britain's nuclear deterrent programme, but exactly nine years later, with the aircraft grounded, the squadron disbanded for the last time.
No.617 Sqn RAF Country : UK Founded : 23rd March 1943 Apres mois, le deluge - After me, the flood Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of No.617 Sqn RAF	No.617 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available.

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