THE PLANE

The Aircraft:                      Handley Page Halifax MK II Series I (4mot. Bomber)

Constructed by:                 Handley Page; English Electric; Fairey; Rootes Motors and the London Aircraft Production Group.

Crew:                                 7 members

Power Plants:                    4 Rolls Royce Merlin XX

Bomb load:                        6 Tons

Machine Guns:                   8 Browning cal. .303 1 front turret (in the nose) with 2 pcs., 1 mid-upper turret with 2 pcs. and 1 rear turret with 4 pcs.

Last flight of an Halifax:    March 1952 by an GR MK VI of the Coastal Command

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No. 102 SQUADRON.

The squadron continued to employ the Halifax until September 1945 when it converted to Liberators and it was disbanded on April 27, 1963.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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