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Re: Halifax Instrument Panel: OOp's not LV722
Posted by Paul Waites on Thu Sep 19, 2002 05:15:16 AM
In reply top Halifax Instrument Panel posted by Paul Waites on Thu Sep 19, 2002 04:28:27 AM
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: The panel is from LV722 of 158 Sqn. Lisset. (NP-E).
Hi all,
Oop's should read LV792 no LV722. (Don't think LV722 was a Hali).
On a side note LV792 was part of a batch of 28 BIII's delivered by Handley-Page between 2-14th January 44. Of those 28 aircraft only 2 survived the conflict:
LV788 was SOC on 15/2/46. LV776 survived until 11/8/47. All 26 others either crashed or FTR from ops??. Quite an attrition rate, and also quite a sobering thought.
All the more reason to remember the crews that flew in them.
Paul.