Hello Bobkat

You are right the items 52 do look like your “Air Ministry’s reply (post #309)” and there are in your picture 3 bomb carrier fuzing attachments, however when I received the relics there was on a few of the items a description in German of the relic (unfortunately some of the label detached themselves in transit) I have posted a photo of the description that is written in German. There is a marking on my items AT30450 on the 2nd item the same number, on the face of the dial the number 761. I don’t know why the person in Germany thought they were from an H2S radar maybe he mixed up the labels, and I have the H2S radar items still somewhere in my collection, if someone has a picture of the actual items of a H2S radar it would help my search.

Dennis

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Item 61 looks like an interesting relic is it from a Lancaster

Items 4 and 5 (post 18) the red/brown relics could they be part of a fuse box similar to, or even be parts of a fuse box belonging to a Short Stirling circa 1943? I found a similar piece of relic online item 01 it seems to be made of similar material as the parts 4 and 5. Part 5 has a reference number (s. p. 5) 36 0 2477

Dennis

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Thanks Peter for the part 9 info is it for the Lancaster or some other aircraft? trying to piece together a 101 Sqn Lancaster. Here are some more relics the few fabric pieces that survived the crash, could be parts of parachute, seat covering, ect,

Dennis

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101 Squadron Lancasters were equipped with a top secret radio jamming system codenamed “Airborne Cigar” (ABC) operated by an eighth crew member who could understand German, some with German or Jewish backgrounds known as “special operators” commonly abbreviated to “spec ops” or “SO”. They sat in a curtained off area towards the rear of the aircraft and located and jammed German fighter controllers broadcasts, occasionally posing as controllers to spread disinformation. The aircraft fitted with the system were distinctive due to the two large vertical antennae rising from the middle of the fuselage. Deliberately breaking the standing operating procedure of radio silence to conduct the jamming, made the aircraft highly vulnerable to being tracked and attacked, which resulted in 101 Squadron having the highest casualty rate of any RAF squadron during the war, It suffered exceptionally heavy casualties, losing 145 Lancasters on operations, and 1176 aircrew were killed in action, as German night fighters could detect the jamming transmissions. That is why I would like to find any Lancaster relics among my collection and present them to 101 Squadron association for their 100th anniversary in 2017. The rest of the relics I will keep a few for myself, and the rest I will sell on eBay.

Dennis

I think you are right, I’m no expert either, as I said in an earlier thread, I thought there was some early jet parts included in the relics, as the aircraft instrument dials that come with the relics are not connected with any WW2 aircraft. The speed dial item 1 reads 0-700 mph obviously a jet, items 2 and 3 seem rather basic, the turn indicator reads 0-135 it looks like too much of a turning ratio for a bomber, and the altimeter reads a maximum of 40,000 feet, the Lancaster only had a service ceiling of 21,000 feet, item 4 is an accelerator g unit probably a jet as well.

Dennis

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The relics were mainly from a Lancaster Mk III flown by P/O Batten-Smith of No. 101 squadron that was lost over Germany on 31 March 1944. Does anybody have any information on the excavation of Avro Lancaster SR-R “DV276” at the location of Nürnberg east (German: AK Kreuz Nürnberg Ost) maybe the name of the person that excavated the site.

Dennis

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Batten-Smith and his crew

There is some parts of a Lancaster that is dated 1943

Item 5 is the front plate from a Selector Dimmer control from a Gyro Gunsight.

If that part comes from a Lancaster shot down in March 1944, then I think it must have been one of the first in service.