Operation Ebensburg by Ivan Berryman. (C) AIT331 and inevitably paid a heavy

and inevitably paid a heavy price

51st (2nd Yorkshire

Flt Lt John Boothman completes a victory run over the packed pier at Ryde

as the GWR Prairie tank engine pulls out of the station

Having been wounded early in World War One as a soldier on the Western Front

Operation Ebensburg by Ivan Berryman. (C) AIT331 and inevitably paid a heavyB0488C. Operation Ebensburg by Ivan Berryman. Sunday 8th April 1945. Halifax B. II Series 1 (Special) JP254 of 148 Special Duties Squadron, RAF piloted by Pilot officer Bill Leckie is depicted approaching the drop zone near to the Alt Aussee salt mine in the Austrian Alps to drop four SOE agents and their equipment whose mission it was to secure and protect 6,755 items of the world's greatest works of art that had been looted and stored by the Germans