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Title
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Cheshire, Leonard
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard
Baron Cheshire
Description
An account of the resource
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.
Publisher
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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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Transcription
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617 Squadron,
Woodhall Spa,
Lincolnshire.
12th May 1944.
Thank you very much for so kindly forwarding the bombing chart prints. We are greatly looking forward to the results, which we hope to achieve in the near future.
Yours sincerely,
GLC
B.N. Wallis Esq,
Messrs Vickers Armstrong Ltd,
Weybridge Works,
Weybridge,
[underlined] Surrey. [/underlined]
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Title
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Letter from Leonard Cheshire to Barnes Wallis
Description
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Thanks him for bombing charts.
Date
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1944-05-12
Language
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eng
Type
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Text
Text. Correspondence
Identifier
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SCheshireGL72021v10056
Coverage
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
England--Surrey
England--Weybridge
Temporal Coverage
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1944-05-12
Is Part Of
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Cheshire, Leonard. Correspondence
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
License
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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.
Creator
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Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire
Format
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One-page typewritten letter
Contributor
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Frances Grundy
617 Squadron
bombing
Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)
RAF Woodhall Spa
Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)