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Title
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RAF Metheringham collection
Description
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131 items. The collection is from the Royal Air Force Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre and contains photographs of aircraft, aircrew, other RAF personnel and places. Includes some target and reconnaissance photographs. Many items are concerned with 106 Squadron at RAF Metheringham and RAF Syerston.
The collection has been licensed to the IBCC Digital Archive by the RAF Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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IBCC Digital Archive
Date
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2019-01-31
Identifier
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FOMetheringhamAF
Rights
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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.
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[photograph]
MOSQUITO LANDING WITH THE AID OF FIDO.
[photograph]
[underlined] No.57 LORIENT (KEROMAN – France) “U” Boat Pens. [/underlined]
Daylight attack on the 6th August, 1944 showing aiming points at 20.28 1/2 hours and bombing concentration at 20.30 hours.
(5 Group) [underlined] CONFIDENTIAL. [/underlined]
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Title
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Mosquito landing and target photographs
Description
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Top - a runway with FIDO aflame on edges. A Mosquito is landing on left side. Submitted with description 'Mosquito landing with the aid of FIDO. Date and location not recorded'.
Bottom - side by side target photographs of port area showing aiming points (arrowed) on left and bombing concentration with explosions marked 'B' on right. In the left hand photograph, the main dock is orientated vertically, with the submarine pen forming a square at its lower left hand end. The right hand photograph shows the same area with the dock and jetty edges obliterated by bomb craters. The island to bottom right is Ile Saint Michel. Explanatory text underneath. Submitted with description 'Target photographs of 06/08/1944 daylight attack by 617 Sqn, RAF Bomber Command on the Lorient U-boat pens'. Note; 617 Sqn used Tallboys in this attack.
Format
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Three b/w photographs mounted on an album page
Type
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Photograph
Identifier
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PFOMetheringhamAF19050011
Coverage
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
Spatial Coverage
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France
France--Lorient
Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay
Temporal Coverage
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1944-08-06
Publisher
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IBCC Digital Archive
Rights
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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.
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Stuart Cummins
Jayne L Bailey
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Geolocated
617 Squadron
aerial photograph
bombing
FIDO
Mosquito
submarine
Tallboy
target photograph