A Truly Outstanding & Early, Bomber Command, Aircrew Europe,
“Double Gallantry” DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS & DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL Group of Six.
To:
Sgt- Flt/Lt Leonard R. Say. DFC, DFM.
Air Gunner,
61 Squadron, ROYAL AIR FORCE
Flew raids on Hampdens, Manchesters & Lancasters,
with air time on various other types.
DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS (1943)
:Officially Engraved: “1943”
DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL (1942) 
:Officially Engraved: 1154059. SGT. L.R. SAY. R.A.F.”
1939-45 Star (Bomber Command Clasp)
Aircrew Europe Star
Defence Medal
War Medal 1939-45
With the original 52 operational sorties Flying Log Book.
[THE FLYING LOG BOOK]
-With 52 OPERATIONAL NIGHT SORTIES-
(26th June 1941 to 5th September 1943)
“Seldom does one see a “Nine Lives” Flying Log Book like this”
There are some truly “frightening” sorties recorded within its covers where on one occasion Len Say’s aircraft was struck by lightning rendering him unconscious in the rear turret.
Some more of these incidents are:
28/3/42. LUBECK ......Shot up by Ack Ack
30/5/42. COLOGNE...First 1,000 bomber raid
6/6/42. ESSEN ........Attacked by Fighter, 1 engine U/S
26/3/43. DUISBERG...Holed badly by heavy flak
13/5/43. PILSEN (Skoda Works) Attacked by fighter over target
*23/8/43. BERLIN. With pilot W/Cdr W.M. Penman.
(*Flt/Lt Say’s penultimate sortie to Berlin on 23rd August 1943 was captained by 26 year old Wing Commander W.M.DENMAN (DFC,AFC,MID). Bill Denman was sadly killed in action just 41 days later on 3rd October while attacking KASSEL in a 61 Squadron Lancaster Mk1 W4279 (QR-Z).
**5/9/43. BERLIN........Shot up badly, attacked by two JU88’s
(**This was Len Say’s final & 52nd operational bombing sortie.)
This fabulous group comes complete with:
Original Flying Log Book from 27th Nov 1940.
Most, if not all the Operational Book records from national archive.
Two lists of operations.
Both DFC & DFM Recommendations.
London Gazette with award confirmation copies and promotions.
All medals are Superb & Original EF+
£8995 (With Quality Part Exchanges Welcome)
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”SPECIAL NOTE”
Please note that this is the ONLY genuine group to this officer.
We are aware that a group “claiming” to be to this officer appeared at a London auction in 2017. As the UK’s leading flying medal specialists we have established that was a totally bogus group which was both incorrectly engraved & incorrectly named.
That group also incorrectly displayed a France & Germany clasp to which the recipient was not entitled. Neither did it have a single item of confirming original paperwork, no flying log books nor any positive provenance whatsoever.
The group to Leonard Say which we now offer here is 100% entirely genuine and correct in every respect. It also has its correct & genuine Bomber Command clasp, and is further superbly supported and confirmed by the presence of the original Flying Log Book as completed by Sgt- Flt/Lt L.R. Say RAF(VR) during his service in World War II .
We have recently detected THREE blatant examples of faked up and bogus flying groups having passed through two major U.K. London auction houses who quite clearly don’t have the technical ability, knowledge or experience required to detect these bodged, faked and bogus assemblies. Two of these lots then ended up with overseas sales companies, who sold them as genuine when provably they were not. One of those ended up in a major national museum in Australia and after our contact with the curator, the bogus group has now been removed from the museum’s website.
In all of these three cases we know definitively that the groups were fake because WE actually own the genuine medal groups along with their full supporting log books and official issue papers etc.
We have reported these matters to the auction houses concerned.
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61 Squadron, ROYAL AIR FORCE Flew raids on Hampdens, Manchesters & Lancasters, with air time on various other types.
DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS (1943)
:Officially Engraved: “1943”
DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL (1942) 
:Officially Engraved: 1154059. SGT. L.R. SAY. R.A.F.”
1939-45 Star (Bomber Command Clasp)
Aircrew Europe Star
Defence Medal
War Medal 1939-45
With the original 52 operational sorties Flying Log Book.
[THE FLYING LOG BOOK]
-With 52 OPERATIONAL NIGHT SORTIES-
(26th June 1941 to 5th September 1943)
“Seldom does one see a “Nine Lives” Flying Log Book like this”
There are some truly “frightening” sorties recorded within its covers where on one occasion Len Say’s aircraft was struck by lightning rendering him unconscious in the rear turret.
Some more of these incidents are:
28/3/42. LUBECK ......Shot up by Ack Ack
30/5/42. COLOGNE...First 1,000 bomber raid
6/6/42. ESSEN ........Attacked by Fighter, 1 engine U/S
26/3/43. DUISBERG...Holed badly by heavy flak
13/5/43. PILSEN (Skoda Works) Attacked by fighter over target
*23/8/43. BERLIN. With pilot W/Cdr W.M. Penman.
(*Flt/Lt Say’s penultimate sortie to Berlin on 23rd August 1943 was captained by 26 year old Wing Commander W.M.DENMAN (DFC,AFC,MID). Bill Denman was sadly killed in action just 41 days later on 3rd October while attacking KASSEL in a 61 Squadron Lancaster Mk1 W4279 (QR-Z).
**5/9/43. BERLIN........Shot up badly, attacked by two JU88’s
(**This was Len Say’s final & 52nd operational bombing sortie.)
This fabulous group comes complete with:
Original Flying Log Book from 27th Nov 1940.
Most, if not all the Operational Book records from national archive.
Two lists of operations.
Both DFC & DFM Recommendations.
London Gazette with award confirmation copies and promotions.
All medals are Superb & Original EF+
£8995 (With Quality Part Exchanges Welcome)
—————————————————————-
”SPECIAL NOTE”
Please note that this is the ONLY genuine group to this officer.
We are aware that a group “claiming” to be to this officer appeared at a London auction in 2017. As the UK’s leading flying medal specialists we have established that was a totally bogus group which was both incorrectly engraved & incorrectly named.
That group also incorrectly displayed a France & Germany clasp to which the recipient was not entitled. Neither did it have a single item of confirming original paperwork, no flying log books nor any positive provenance whatsoever.
The group to Leonard Say which we now offer here is 100% entirely genuine and correct in every respect. It also has its correct & genuine Bomber Command clasp, and is further superbly supported and confirmed by the presence of the original Flying Log Book as completed by Sgt- Flt/Lt L.R. Say RAF(VR) during his service in World War II .
We have recently detected THREE blatant examples of faked up and bogus flying groups having passed through two major U.K. London auction houses who quite clearly don’t have the technical ability, knowledge or experience required to detect these bodged, faked and bogus assemblies. Two of these lots then ended up with overseas sales companies, who sold them as genuine when provably they were not. One of those ended up in a major national museum in Australia and after our contact with the curator, the bogus group has now been removed from the museum’s website.
In all of these three cases we know definitively that the groups were fake because WE actually own the genuine medal groups along with their full supporting log books and official issue papers etc.
We have reported these matters to the auction houses concerned.
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