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*The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare. | |
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Corporal Maureen Stevens (deceased) *Signature Value : £15 | Was an R/T Operator in the control tower at Scampton during 1943 and was on duty on the night of the 16/17 May when she talked home the survivors of the Dambuster Raids. She died on 3rd December 2017. |
Dr Mary Stopes-Roe (deceased) *Signature Value : £10 | The daughter of Sir Barnes Wallis who, as a child, helped to inspire her father to invent Upkeep - the Bouncing Bomb - whilst the family was skipping stones across the water. Together with her brother and sister they assisted their father in his experiments catapulting her marbles over a washtub at home, later famously portrayed in the 1955 film The Dam Busters. After the war she became an eminent psychologist at Birmingham University. She died on 10th May 2019. |
Squadron Leader George L. Johnson DFM (deceased) *Signature Value : £45 | Joining the RAF in 1940, George Johnson served with 97 Squadron before joining 617 Squadron. Bomb aimer on American Joe McCarthys Lancaster AJ-T, they attacked the Sorpe Dam, for which he was awarded the DFM. Commissioned a few months later, George retired from the RAF in 1962. The last surviving Dambuster, he died aged 101 on 7th December 2022. |
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