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Cheshire, Leonard
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard
Baron Cheshire
Description
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374 items concerning Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC. Collection consists of photographs of people, vehicles, places, aircraft, weapons and targets; documents including, private and service letters, signals, telegrams, intelligence reports, crew lists and official documents. Cheshire served on 102 and 35 Squadrons and commanded 76 and 617 Squadrons. The collection includes details of 617 Squadron's precision bombing operations. Also included are two sub-collections: one containing 21 photographs of Tinian and Saipan, the other consisting of 37 audio tapes of speeches given by Cheshire after the war.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by The Leonard Cheshire Archive and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive 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.
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Permission granted for commercial projects
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[underlined] CONSTRUCTIONAL WORKS, SIRACOURT. [/underlined]
[underlined] DAY 25TH. JUNE 1944. [/underlined]
[underlined] NARRATIVE. [/underlined]
The day following the successful attack on Wizernes the Squadron was detailed to carry out an attack on the third of the Constructional Works; that at Siracourt just to the West of the small town of St. Pol.
One Mustang, two Mosquitoes and seventeen Lancasters were detailed and took off in the early hours of the day 25th. June.
There was clear weather and good visibility over the target, which was marked with two red spot fires by the Force Leader in the Mustang. These markers were assessed as 200 yards 040° from the Aiming Point, and although the Lancasters were able to bomb visually the markers proved of great assistance to the Bomb Aimers on theIr run up to the target.
The bombing was up to the usual high standard and there were at least two direct hits, one of which penetrated the concrete roof of the Main Building and blew in part of the North West wall. There was also one very near miss and a further six bombs within 100 yards. A very large explosion occurred at 0905 hours and appeared to come from the Southern end of the Main Building.
Intense and accurate heavy flak was encountered over the target and F/O. Lee's aircraft was hit. He had made three runs over the Aiming Point but the bomb failed to release and was eventually jettisoned in the sea on the return journey.
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States that squadron was detailed to attack third constructional site at Sirancourt just to the west of St Pol. One P-51, two Mosquitos and 17 Lancasters took off for attack. Reports clear weather and good target marking. Aircraft bombed visually to high standard. Two direct hits penetrated roof and one very near miss. Large explosion reported at 09:05. Reports intense accurate anti-aircraft fire and one aircraft hit.
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Service material
Identifier
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MCheshireGL72021-181210-060002
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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France
France--Siracourt
Temporal Coverage
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1944-06-25
Is Part Of
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Cheshire, Leonard. Bombing of the Siracourt V-2 site (25 June 1944)
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Royalty-free permission to publish
Rights
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This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive 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.
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Margaret Carr
David Bloomfield
Format
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One-page typewritten document
Title
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Constructional works, Siracourt, day 25th June 1944, narrative
anti-aircraft fire
bombing
bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944)
Lancaster
Mosquito
Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
P-51
V-1
V-weapon