Almost Home by Robert Taylor. SIG253 as part of a unit

as part of a unit specialising in attacking American daylight bombing raids

Flight Lieutenant Tom Wingham

Robert Watts captures the romance of that golden era of passenger flight in his nostalgic painting of a L-1049 Constellation

Situated on the south eastern tip of Kent

high over South East England in that fateful summer of 1940

Almost Home by Robert Taylor. SIG253 as part of a unitDHM6611. Almost Home by Robert Taylor. night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers