The Avro Heritage Museum Podcast

World War 2 Avro Lancaster radio operator - John Monaghan

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Episode notes

John Monaghan joined 166 Sqn at RAF Kirmington in Feb 1945 as a wireless operator on the Lancaster.

He flew on 18 operations from March to May including Heligoland, Berchtesgaden, and Berlin. He also participated in several Operation Manna missions, humanitarian food drops to relieve a famine in the German-occupied Netherlands, as well as several Operation Exodus missions to repatriate Allied prisoners of war (POW)s from Europe to Britain.

The voices you hear are of author and blogger Frank Pleszak, John’s son Andy, and myself Ian Sanders.

We start the chat with John looking through his log book and photos.