Airmen
Title
Airmen
Description
Top left - aircrew, wearing assorted flying clothing, including parachute harnesses and Mae Wests, in a group next to an aircrew bus at RAF Syerston.
Top right - Wing Commander Guy Gibson, dressed in sheepskin flying jacket, and two unidentified RAF officers at RAF Syerston.
Middle - A group of aircrew wearing assorted flying clothing, including parachute harnesses and Mae Wests, some carrying parachutes and flight bags, outside a single-storey building at RAF Syesrston. Also present are three officers, wearing greatcoats.
Bottom - A group of aircrew wearing assorted flying clothing, including parachute harnesses and Mae Wests, some carrying parachutes, outside a single-storey building at RAF Syerston. There is a group of four officers alongside, three of whom are wearing greatcoats. The fourth from right is Guy Gibson, wearing a sheepskin flying jacket.
Descriptions kindly provided by the donor.
Top right - Wing Commander Guy Gibson, dressed in sheepskin flying jacket, and two unidentified RAF officers at RAF Syerston.
Middle - A group of aircrew wearing assorted flying clothing, including parachute harnesses and Mae Wests, some carrying parachutes and flight bags, outside a single-storey building at RAF Syesrston. Also present are three officers, wearing greatcoats.
Bottom - A group of aircrew wearing assorted flying clothing, including parachute harnesses and Mae Wests, some carrying parachutes, outside a single-storey building at RAF Syerston. There is a group of four officers alongside, three of whom are wearing greatcoats. The fourth from right is Guy Gibson, wearing a sheepskin flying jacket.
Descriptions kindly provided by the donor.
Type
Format
Four b/w photographs mounted on an album page
Publisher
Rights
This content is property of the Royal Air Force Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.
Identifier
PFOMetheringhamAF26010004
Collection
Citation
“Airmen,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed September 5, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/61781.