Wonderful post on the Dambuster’s Blog about Doug.
The rest of the crew of AJ-O are also featured.
Pilot: Flt Sgt W C Townsend DFM
Flight engineer: Sgt D J D Powell
Navigator: Plt Off C L Howard
Bomb aimer: Sgt C E Franklin DFM
Wireless operator: Flt Sgt G A Chalmers
Originally posted on Dambusters Blog:
Douglas Webb with his parents, Edward and Daisy Webb, and (left) his then fiancée, Anne Jones, photographed outside Buckingham Palace on 22 June 1943.
Sgt D E Webb: Front gunner
Lancaster serial number: ED886/G
Call sign: AJ-O
Third wave. Only aircraft to attack Ennepe Dam. Mine dropped successfully, but failed to breach dam.
Douglas Edward Webb was born in Leytonstone, London on 12 September 1922, one of the two children of Edward and Daisy Webb. After leaving school, he worked briefly for Ilford and then for the London News Agency in Fleet Street, as a photographic printer. He joined the RAF in 1940, as soon as he had turned 18, as he wanted to be an air gunner.
After a substantial delay, he began training in 1942 and qualified as a gunner later that year. He was posted to 49 Squadron where he became one of…
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