RAFCV328: Official flown limited 746/970 FDC of the 75th Anniversary of the RAF bearing11 Sqn frank and signed by Air Chief Marshal Sir David Harcourt-Smith GBE, KCB, and DFC. Who served in Germany and flew in the Suez Campaign where he won his DFC.

Also signed on reverse by Group Captain W S O Randle CBE AFC DFM FRAeS FIMgt In 1942, Bill was a sergeant pilot with No 150 Squadron, Bomber Command, based at Snaith in Yorkshire, and had already established something of a reputation as a survivor and escaper, in the course of his career Bill was eventually to survive no fewer than 8 Wellington crashes, for which his colleagues jokingly awarded him an 'Iron Cross, Second Class' in the hope that “this officer will thus be encouraged to strive even harder in the cause of our beloved Luftwaffe”!  He crashed over enemy territory and escaped through the 'Comete Lines' and returned to combat flying. Cover flown in Tornado F3, ZE 964 of No11 Sqn.