Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Flight Sergeant R. P. Behenna, Royal Air Force, who flew operationally in Lancasters of No. 227 Squadron in 1945

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, extremely fine (3) £150-200

Behenna commenced his wartime career at No. 2 Radio School, where he qualified as a Wireless Operator in August 1944 and, having then attended an O.T.U., was posted to No. 227 Squadron, a Lancaster unit operating out of Strubby in Lincolnshire, in March 1945. He subsequently completed nine operational sorties before the War’s end, including three attacks on Berlin and another on Munich. Remaining with No. 227 Squadron until late 1945, he latterly served in Liberators of No. 59 Squadron, Transport Command, and was demobilised in June 1946.

Sold with the recipient’s original R.A.F. Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bombers, Air Gunners and Flight Engineers (Form 1767 /Revised Oct. 1943), covering the period June 1944 to June 1946.