GREAT BRITAIN. 1942. Mechanics inspect a propeller engine on an Wellington bomber at a Royal Air Force base before a daylight bombing raid over Occupied France. Groundcrew at work, almost certainly on the same aircraft. One of a batch of 550 Mk ICs built by Vickers at Chester and delivered in August 1940 to May 1941, R1593 was not the first example to wear the codes OJ-N with 149 Sqn; an earlier Mk IC, P9273, with the same codes had been lost during a raid on Ostend in the autumn of 1940. R1593 itself went on to serve with No 1483 (Bomber) Gunnery Flight at Newmarket, 15 OTU [Operational Training Unit] at Harwell and 21 OTU at Moreton-in-Marsh. It was struck off charge on March 28, 1945.