Caterpillar Club membership card

Membership card for the Caterpillar Club belonging to Flight Officer Edwin Walker, who was a navigator on a Lancaster bomber and bailed out when his plane was hit during a bombing raid in February 1944. He and two other crew members survived and he spent the remainder of the war in a German POW camp. The crew members who lost their lives are commemorated at the Bomber Command memorial in Lincoln. The Caterpillar Club was open to all aircrew whose lives had been saved by a parachute made of silk. It was run by Irvin Air Chutes of Great Britain, who made the parachutes

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