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Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins (deceased)
Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins Born in Plymouth, Devon, joined the RAF at the age of 17 and became a flight engineer on Lancaster with 195 Squadron.in October 1944. whihc flew from RAF Wratting Common. Bill Higgins flew on most missions that 195 Squadorn took part in including there last mission on the 24th April 1945 the bombing of Railway facilites at Bad Oldesloe. and also took part in the supply drops to the Dutch at The Hague on the 7th May 1945. After the war end Bill transferred to air traffic control in Occupied Germany durign the Belrin Airtlift. and after leaving the RAF, Joined the civil servcie and worked onRadar, including the intallation of radar on HMS Cavalier in Singapore.
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Items Signed by Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins (deceased) |
  | Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman. (B) Price : £90.00 | When Roy Chadwick first drew the Avro 679 Manchester bomber for the RAF, he could little have known that from this rather lacklustre machine would evolve the classic 683 Lancaster. This painting is not a record of any single event in the Lancaster...... | |
  | Under Cover of the Night by Simon Smith. (B) Price : £105.00 | DHM0290B. Under Cover of the Night by Simon Smith. ...... | |
  | Lancaster Dawn by Anthony Saunders. (B) Price : £75.00 | Depicts a 103 squadron Lancaster returning from a night-time bombing mission. ...... |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins (deceased) |
   | Four Pack of Lancaster Aviation Prints Pack Price : £460.00 Saving : £245 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Bomber Force by Nicolas Trudgian. Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian. Mynarskis Lanc by Nicolas Trudgian. Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman. (B) | |
    | Eight Aviation Prints - 4 Spitfire and 4 Lancaster Pack Price : £920.00 Saving : £565 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : First Flap of the Day by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) The Hunting Party by Ivan Berryman (B) Back from Normandy by Nicolas Trudgian. Normandy Breakout by Nicolas Trudgian. Bomber Force by Nicolas Trudgian. Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian. Mynarskis Lanc by Nicolas Trudgian. Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman. (B) | |
         | RAF Tribute Print Pack! Pack Price : £1800.00 Saving : £900 | Ultimate collector pack of aviation prints, featuring legendary aircraft of the RAF in WW2. This tribute edition consists of prints by artists Ivan Berryman and Nicolas Trudgian. The prints depict the legendary Spitfire fighter aircraft, the Hawker...... Titles in this pack : First Flap of the Day by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) The Hunting Party by Ivan Berryman (B) Back from Normandy by Nicolas Trudgian. Normandy Breakout by Nicolas Trudgian. Bomber Force by Nicolas Trudgian. Home at Dawn by Nicolas Trudgian. Mynarskis Lanc by Nicolas Trudgian. Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman. (B) Trainbusters by Nicolas Trudgian. Night Raiders by Ivan Berryman. Mosquitos at Dusk by Nicolas Trudgian. Breakout. Amiens Raid by Mosquitos by Ivan Berryman. Ground Force by Ivan Berryman. Squadron Scramble by Nicolas Trudgian. Holding the Line - The Battle of Britain by Nicolas Trudgian. Hurricane Country by Nicolas Trudgian. Sunday Afternoon by Geoffrey R Herickx. | |
  | Pack of 4 aircrew-signed Lancaster art prints. Pack Price : £350.00 Saving : £185 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Lancaster Dawn by Anthony Saunders. (E) Jet Attack by David Pentland. (C) Avro Lancaster B.1 by Ivan Berryman. (E) Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman. (B) | |
   | Bomber Command Lancaster Prints. Pack Price : £220.00 Saving : £195 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Only the Brave by Philip West. Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman. (B) Outward Bound by Philip West. (Y) Distant Dispersal by Graeme Lothian. |
| | Pack 789. Pack of two signed Lancaster prints by Nicolas Trudgian and Ivan Berryman. Pack Price : £120.00 Saving : £75 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Mynarskis Lanc by Nicolas Trudgian. Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman. (B) | |
| | Pack 888. Pack of two Lancaster bomber prints by Ivan Berryman. Pack Price : £145.00 Saving : £85 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Avro Lancaster B.1 by Ivan Berryman. (E) Chadwick's Masterpiece by Ivan Berryman. (B) | |
| | Crew Signed Lancaster Prints by Anthony Saunders and Ivan Berryman. Pack Price : £170.00 Saving : £80 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Lancaster Dawn by Anthony Saunders. (B) Avro Lancaster B.1 by Ivan Berryman. (E) |
| Squadrons for : Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins (deceased) | ||
| A list of all squadrons known to have been served with by Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins (deceased). A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name. | ||
| Squadron | Info | |
Country : Canada Click the name above to see prints featuring aircraft of No.195 Sqn RCAF | No.195 Sqn RCAF 195 Squadron was formed at Duxford, Cambridgeshire on the 16th of November 1942, as an army support squadron equipped with Hawker Typhoons. 195 Squadron was disbanded in February 1944 but in October 1944 195 Squadron was reformed as a heavy -bomber squadron at Witchford, Cambridgeshire and equipped with Avro Lancasters. No.195 Squadron flew its first operational mission on 26th October 1944 bombing Leverkusen and in total flew some 1384 sorties against the enemy and dropped 6,144.6 tons of bombs by the end of the war. After their final mission on the 24th April 1945 against the Railway facilities at Bad Oldesloe, 195 squadron dropped supplies to the Dutch at The Hague on the 7th of May 1945 and flew home POWs back form France and British troops home from Italy. The squaodron was disbanded in August 1945. | |
| Aircraft for : Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins (deceased) | |||
| A list of all aircraft associated with Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins (deceased). A profile page including a list of all art prints for the aircraft is available by clicking the aircraft name. | |||
| Squadron | Info | ||
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. | ||
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