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- Tags: RAF Coningsby
RAF Skellingthorpe Memorial
#1 and 2 are of the village sign outside the Skellingthorpe Village Hall.
#3 is a view of the memorial with the wreaths left at the ceremony.
#4 and 5 are the standards and attendees at…
83 Squadron Thanksgiving and Dedication of Memorial Chapel
The first is a Thanksgiving at Lincoln Minster and the second is a Dedication at Coningsby.
Tags: 83 Squadron; Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby
Letter from Air Commodore A.C.H. Sharpe to Leonard Cheshire
Telegram to Constance Cheshire from Aaron E Koota
Tags: RAF Coningsby
Letter to L V Rosser from Alan Laughland
Lancaster - instructional course handbook
This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.
Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group
Interview with Eric Brown
Interview with William Bullock
Interview with George Holmes
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bomb dump; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crewing up; faith; forced landing; Home Guard; Lancaster; mid-air collision; nose art; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; wireless operator / air gunner
The Exploits of Warrant Officer Arthur Pritchard
Tags: 463 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); crash; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
Interview with Philip Batty
Tags: 226 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lincoln; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridlington; RAF Coningsby; RAF Madley; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wattisham; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Glenn Atkins
Tags: 44 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-29; Lincoln; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Scampton
Interview with Robert Andrew Percival
Interview with Henry Townsley
Tags: 1661 HCU; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; searchlight; Stirling; training
Two part interview with Bob Panton
Part 1. Bob Panton was a child during the war. One day as his father was coming towards their house Bob saw three Dornier 17 come into view. Then out of the sun came six Spitfires and a battle started in front…
Interview with Nelson Nix
Letter to Leonard Cheshire
Letter from Group Captain D D Christie to Air Commodore Sharpe
Letter from D J Hegarty
Tags: crash; RAF Coningsby
Interview with Mike Chatterton
Interview with Stuart Stephenson MBE
Tags: Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); childhood in wartime; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; perception of bombing war; petrol bowser; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Coltishall; RAF Coningsby; RAF Waddington; service vehicle; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)