More luck of a Lancaster

From 11 June 1943 (the date of Lancaster Mark III EE136 WS/R's first op) to her last with 9 Squadron (on 19 October 1944), 86 Lancasters were assigned to Number 9.

Of these, 50 were lost to enemy action, another 5 crashed at home, 3 crashed in Russia on the first Tirpitz raid and 4 were transferred to other squadrons only to be lost by them, leaving just 24 still flying.

As more came in, 3 of those 24 were transferred to a new squadron, the reforming No 189.

These were EE136 (93 operations), PB146 (36 ops), and LM745 (four ops).

All three saw the war out, unlike so many others. During 189 Squadron's operational period featuring EE136 (1 November 1944 to 3 February 1945) 34 Lancasters came on the strength of which nine were lost in that time.

Over the operational lifetime of Lancaster EE136, 42 different skippers took her on her grand total of 109 trips.