Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Flight Lieutenant K. C. Fisher, Royal Air Force, who flew over 20 operational sorties in Lancaster of No. 15 Squadron in early 1945

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, good very fine (3) £200-300

Fisher commenced his pilot training at Clewiston, Florida the U.S.A., prior to returning to the U.K. in March 1944.

In January 1945, he reported to No. 15 Squadron, a Lancaster unit operating out of R.A.F. Mildenhall, and it was in this capacity that he completed 23 operational sorties in the period leading up to V.E. Day. Thus a spate of attacks on German targets - including Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund Duisburg, Kiel and Munich - sometimes with resultant damage. Thus Flying Log Book entries referring to his Lancaster’s starboard outer engine being shot up over Gelsenkirchen in a day light raid on 22 February and again over Koln in another day light outing on 2 March - ‘badly hit and holed’. He remained on the strength of No. 15 until July 1946.

Sold with the recipient’s original R.C.A.F. Pilot’s Flying Log Book, covering the period March 1943 to October 1946, with a number of pasted down photographs and inserts; together with copied image of aircrew in 15 Squadron’s Lancaster I LL-806 ‘J-Jig’, one of the most famous aircraft of the War, a survivor of no less than 134 operational sorties - the recipient is believed to be the pilot leaning out of the cockpit.