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Wing Commander Jim Wright DFC (deceased)
Upon completing his training in 1943 Jim Wright joined 61 Sqn at Syerston as a Navigator on Lancasters and served in the crew of Flight Lieutenant Ken Ames DFC and Bar. After completing 5 operations with 61 Sqn, F/L Ames and crew were posted to East Kirkby to join the newly formed 630 Squadron. After a brief spell in hospital, after a trip to Kassel on the 22 October 1943 and after completing 22 operations with 630 Squadron, Jim Wright joined 97 (Pathfinder) Squadron at Coningsby for the commencement of their 2nd tour. Jim and the crew completed 16 operations with 97 squadron with their last operation was on the 19th of September 1944. In January 1944 they completed trips to Stettin, Brunswick, Magdeburg and 4 to Berlin. Their next trip to Berlin was on 15th February 1944 followed by operations to Leipzig, Stuttgart and Augsburg. In March they went to Stuttgart, Charmand-Ferront, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Nuremburg. In April to Toulouse, Pillau Canal (Konigsberg), Tours and Juvisy. In May, to finish their first tour, they went to Bourg. Following completion of operational duties with 97 Squadron Jim Wright was seconded to BOAC and served as an Operations Officer at Hurn and Heathrow in1945 until being demobed in October 1946. Then Jim worked for BOAC 1946 until December 1950 as an Air Traffic Control Officer (ATCO) in British West Africa (Yundum & Half Die, Gambia) and as a Flight Operations Officer at Prestwick and Heathrow before rejoining the RAF 1951 for ATCO duties until he retired in 1976. He died on 2nd June 2019.
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Items Signed by Wing Commander Jim Wright DFC (deceased) |
  | Clipped Signature - Jim Wright. Price : £35.00 | Flew a tour as a Navigator on Lancasters with 61 and 630 Squadron before joining 97 Pathfinder Squadron for a second tour. He died in 2019. ...... | |
  | A Welcome Sight by Richard Taylor. Price : £55.00 | A peaceful corner of eastern England is temporarily awakened from its summer slumbers by the thunder of Merlin engines, the familiar roar announcing the safe return of a squadron of Lancasters from their latest operation. With wheels already down, ...... | |
| | A Welcome Sight by Richard Taylor. (AP) Price : £85.00 | A peaceful corner of eastern England is temporarily awakened from its summer slumbers by the thunder of Merlin engines, the familiar roar announcing the safe return of a squadron of Lancasters from their latest operation. With wheels already down, ...... | |
| | A Welcome Sight by Richard Taylor. (RM) Price : £395.00 | A peaceful corner of eastern England is temporarily awakened from its summer slumbers by the thunder of Merlin engines, the familiar roar announcing the safe return of a squadron of Lancasters from their latest operation. With wheels already down, ...... | |
| | A Welcome Sight by Richard Taylor. (RMB) Price : £625.00 | A peaceful corner of eastern England is temporarily awakened from its summer slumbers by the thunder of Merlin engines, the familiar roar announcing the safe return of a squadron of Lancasters from their latest operation. With wheels already down, ...... |
  | Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. Price : £180.00 | Up to 1942 Bomber Command operations were beset by many problems. The means they had to accurately pinpoint the target and assault it were totally lacking, in fact their Commander in Chief, Air Marshall Arthur Harris later wrote : It was glaringly ob...... | |
| | Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson (AP) Price : £295.00 | Up to 1942 Bomber Command operations were beset by many problems. The means they had to accurately pinpoint the target and assault it were totally lacking, in fact their Commander in Chief, Air Marshall Arthur Harris later wrote : It was glaringly ob...... | |
| | Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson (B) Price : £595.00 | Up to 1942 Bomber Command operations were beset by many problems. The means they had to accurately pinpoint the target and assault it were totally lacking, in fact their Commander in Chief, Air Marshall Arthur Harris later wrote : It was glaringly ob...... | |
| | Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. (XX) Price : £175.00 | Up to 1942 Bomber Command operations were beset by many problems. The means they had to accurately pinpoint the target and assault it were totally lacking, in fact their Commander in Chief, Air Marshall Arthur Harris later wrote : It was glaringly ob...... | |
| | Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. (Y) Price : £150.00 | Up to 1942 Bomber Command operations were beset by many problems. The means they had to accurately pinpoint the target and assault it were totally lacking, in fact their Commander in Chief, Air Marshall Arthur Harris later wrote : It was glaringly o...... |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Wing Commander Jim Wright DFC (deceased) |
   | Four Avro Lancaster prints by Gerlad Coulson. Pack Price : £395.00 Saving : £267 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Off Duty Lancaster at Rest by Gerald Coulson. Outbound Lancaster by Gerald Coulson. Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson. (B) Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. | |
    | 8 WW2 RAF Aviation Prints by Gerald Coulson. Pack Price : £700.00 Saving : £642 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Battle of Britain, Manston, 12th August 1940 by Gerald Coulson. Scramble by Gerald Coulson. High Spirits 1940 by Gerald Coulson. Quartet by Gerald Coulson. Off Duty Lancaster at Rest by Gerald Coulson. Outbound Lancaster by Gerald Coulson. Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson. (B) Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. | |
 | Gerald Coulson Lancaster Print Pack. Pack Price : £380.00 Saving : £195 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson. Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. Outbound Lancaster by Gerald Coulson. Lancaster Lift-Off by Gerald Coulson. | |
      | Bomber Command Lancaster Art Prints by Gerald Coulson and Ivan Berryman Massive Discount Pack. Pack Price : £580.00 Saving : £680 | Aviation Print Pack - available for purchase by our customers and the art trade. ...... Titles in this pack : Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson. Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. Outbound Lancaster by Gerald Coulson. (C) Lancaster Lift-Off by Gerald Coulson. (C) Gunner's Moon by Ivan Berryman. Operation Manna by Ivan Berryman. Avro Lancaster B.1 by Ivan Berryman. (D) Incident over Mannheim by Ivan Berryman. The Dambusters by Ivan Berryman. Dambusters - Moment of Truth by Ivan Berryman. | |
| | Pack 843. Pack of two Lancaster bomber prints by Gerald Coulson. Pack Price : £350.00 Saving : £210 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson. (B) Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. |
 | WW2 Bomber Command Lancaster Aviation Prints by Robert Taylor and Graeme Lothian. Pack Price : £245.00 Saving : £155 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. Distant Dispersal by Graeme Lothian. (C) | |
 | Avro Lancaster Prints Publioshed by Military Gallery, by Gerald Coulson and Simon Smith. Pack Price : £255.00 Saving : £145 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. Mission Completed by Simon Smith. | |
| | Avro Lancaster Aviation Art Prints by Gerald Coulson. Pack Price : £350.00 Saving : £110 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson. Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson. |
| Squadrons for : Wing Commander Jim Wright DFC | ||
| A list of all squadrons known to have been served with by Wing Commander Jim Wright DFC. A profile page is available by clicking the squadron name. | ||
| Squadron | Info | |
Country : UK Founded : 25th July 1917 Fate : Disbanded 31st March 1958 Per prurum tonantes - Thundering through the clear sky | No.61 Sqn RAF On July 1917 at RAF Rochford in Essex No.61 Squadron was formed and along with two other squadrons formed the London Air Defence Area intended to counter the daylight air raids. 61 squadron was equipped with the Sopwith Pup. The squadron first went into action on 12 thAugust, when a formation of 10 German Gotha bombers were seen over the Thames. Sixteen Sopwith Pups of No.61 Squadron took off to intercept them and succeeded in turning the enemy back, but not before two bombs had been dropped near No.61s hangars on Rochford Aerodrome. In 1918, 61 squadron was re-equipped with SE5s. When the armistice had been signed and the war was over 61 squadron was disbanded on 13th June 1919. No. 61 Squadron was re-formed on 8th March 1937 as a bomber squadron, and initially flying Hawker Audax, then the Avro Anson, followed by the Bristol Blenheim and during World War II flew with No. 5 Group, Bomer Command flying the Handley Page Hampden. The squadrons first operational mission was on 25th December 1939. The squadron then was equipped with the Avro Manchester. The slow delivery of the Manchester meant that the squadron operated both aircraft from July 1941 when the first Manchesters arrived, through to October 1941 when the use of the last of the Hampdens stopped. The squadron struggled on with the Manchester before converting to the Avro Lancaster in 1942, which 61 squadron flew for the rest of the war. Four of its Lancasters; ED860 N-Nan, EE176, JB138, and LL483, each served on more than 100 operational sorties. Records show that in the case of the first three aircraft, the long road to their centuries included participation in the raid on 3/4 November 1943, when Flt Lt William Reid of No. 61 Squadron won the Victoria Cross. After the war No. 61 Squadron re-equipped with Avro Lincolns in May 1946 and saw action in Malaya during Operation Firedog and during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. In 1954 at RAF Wittering, 61 Squadron was equipped with the new English Electric Canberra. The Canberras of the squadron were used during the Suez Crisis in 1956. Finally on March 31st 1958, 61 squadron wasd disbanded. | |
Country : UK Founded : 1st December 1917 Fate : Disbanded 2nd January 1967 Straits Settlement Achieve your aim | No.97 Sqn RAF Full profile not yet available. | |
| Aircraft for : Wing Commander Jim Wright DFC | |||
| A list of all aircraft associated with Wing Commander Jim Wright DFC. 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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