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- Tags: Grand Slam
Andover's Lancasters
Tags: 156 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Grand Slam; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; military discipline; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bardney; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; Spitfire; take-off crash; Tallboy; Tirpitz; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Mosquitoes and Lancaster
#2 is a front/nose view of a Mosquito.
#3 is a rear view of a Mosquito.
#4 is a port side view of a Lancaster, captioned 'Lanc (special) of 617 Sqn Woodhall Spa. Cut away to carry…
Newspaper cuttings award of Victoria Cross
Tags: aircrew; bale out; bombing; crash; Grand Slam; killed in action; Master Bomber; pilot; shot down; Victoria Cross
The RAF's 23rd Victoria Cross
Kenneth Gill - service history
Tags: 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; crash; Grand Slam; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; navigator; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bardney; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Record of Flying Officer Kenneth Gill D.F.C (155097) RAFVR joined 1941
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; FIDO; Grand Slam; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; memorial; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; P-51; promotion; RAF Bardney; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Newspaper cutting - Arnsberg here I come
Tags: 617 Squadron; bombing; Grand Slam; Lancaster; Tallboy
Newspaper cutting - Leicester DFC 10-Ton mission
Newspaper cutting - fantastic flash
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Grand Slam
'Ten-Ton Tess' pilot gets bar to DSO
Tags: aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Service Order; Grand Slam; pilot
Lancaster and bombs
Bottom left - similar air-to-air view front port quarter of a Lancaster with further…
Nienburg Bridge after attack by 617 Sqn with Tallboys and Grand Slams
Attack on oil targets
Tags: bombing; Grand Slam
Jim Eley and Ten Ton Bomb
Tags: aircrew; Grand Slam; pilot; RAF Marham
Sign notice for Grand Slam
Grand Slam bomb
Alan Edgar and crew reunion
Crew reunion
Left to…
Tags: aircrew; Grand Slam; Lancaster; RAF Scampton; Tallboy
Lancaster gate guard with Vulcan overflight
Tags: Grand Slam; Lancaster; RAF Scampton; Tallboy
Group Captain Johnny Fauquier, Lancaster and Grand Slam bomb
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; dispersal; Grand Slam; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Woodhall Spa
Operation to Farge
Tags: bombing; Grand Slam
Grand Slam modified Lancaster on airfield
Tags: bombing; Grand Slam; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Thirty second operation, Farge
Tags: 467 Squadron; bombing; Grand Slam; Lancaster; runway
Notes on aircraft
Targets and A&AEE Boscombe Down
Top left - a note 'got to here'. Top right - an aerial oblique view of a city-scape with some large buildings and some damage visible. Captioned 'Essen' on the reverse 'Essen'.
Middle - an aerial oblique view of a…