Thanks for the comments folks, much appreciated.

Fantastic pictures, thank you for joining and sharing.
Although there were a handful of post-war RAF types armed with turrets you don’t really associate air gunners with the period, so these pictures provide a valued glimpse into that role.

Thats very true. Its kind of scary to think that had one of these lumbering great whales come up against even a first generation jet the gunners efforts would have proved pretty futile. Fortunately, for dad (and me!) that never happened.

Do you know which Lancaster unit he served with?

Good question, I should know because I’ve pored over his flying logbook often enough. I’ll have to look when I next see my mum in a couple of weeks.

The Marlin is a favourite flying boat of mine, so great to see a pic of the one above.

Here’s another shot of a couple moored at Cat Lai…