The following information and  images were supplied by David Briggs whose Uncle, Les Brown was a 576 Squadron Wireless Operator based at Fiskerton from December 1944 until May 1945. Les, a Yorkshireman from S. Kirkby, began flying as a Flt/Sgt and finished as a Flt/lt. They crewed up on August 6th 1944, began ops on December 29th 1944 flying their last op on 2nd May 1945. Surviving a total of 32 missions, including some of the most important raids undertaken from Fiskerton, 29 were over germany and 3 over Holland. 

Many thanks to David for giving me the opportunity to place these images on this site.

Crew members still alive today are:  

Les Brown (Wireless Op,) Bill(Pilot,) Earl(Mid-Upper Gunner,) and Ken (Navigator.)

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The Holmes Crew . May 1945. With the struggle finally over, P/O Holmes and crew photographed with lancaster NG273. Y-Yoke. Like the crew, this Lanc also survived and was scrapped off in June 1947. CREW L TO R: Earl Grife RCAF (Mid U/G,),Dave Nimmo RAFVR (Flight Engineer),Ken Scruton RCAF (Navigator),Bill Holmes RCAF (Pilot),Frank Christison RCAF (Bomb Aimer),Woody Parsons RCAF (Rear Gunner),Les Brown RAFVR (Wireless Operator).

Crew names and nationalities from reverse side of crew photo.

Flying log, page 1.

Flying Log page 2.

Flying Log, page 3.

Flying Log page 4.

Flying Log page 5.

Flying log page 6.

Ops details. Dates, target, aircraft serial number.

Bill,(Pilot) and Les(W/O) taken in 2000 at Fiskerton Memorial.

Recent Image of: Earl, Bill & Ken. (Mid-upper, Pilot & Nav.)

Chris,(Bomb Aimer) now deceased, taken in 1950 with his Wife.

Another Lancaster this crew took on ops was ME 801. UL-N2 for Nan. She was a lucky lanc- carrying home her crews a total of 115 times. Click on images for a full-size view.

Image of Flt.Lt. Brown taken on the day of his commissioning at Scampton in 1945.

Flt. Lt. Les Brown. This image was taken in 1946 in India shortly after recovering from malaria.