JS(CC)63b Caterpillar Club Signed By Wg Cdr Haydn Jacobs rear Gunner of Lancaster

26.6.99 Biggin hill Air Fair The Caterpillar Club.Flown Cachet on the back Flown in Hercules of 70 Sqn RAF Lyneham from RAF Brize Norton and carried by the RAF Falcons on a display  parachute drop on the County Ground as a curtain raiser to the Swindon Town v Barnsley football match.

Personally Signed By Wg Cdr Haydn Jacobs OBE  rear Gunner of Lancaster 60-N & holder of 2 Catapillars.

29 Sept 43  crash landed  at Swanton Morley, 26 November 43 aircraft involved in Mid air collision over Berlin, 11 Sept 1944  No 582  Sqn took part on a raid on Castrop Rauxel Germany. Over the Target the aircraft  was badly damaged and the starboard outer engine caught fire focing the crew to bail out over occupied territory, where they were captured and  spent 7 months   as Prisoners of War in Stalag Luft 1 Barth. Certified Copy No 114 of 300.       

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