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- Tags: Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Squadron Leader T Kell
Memory of Mailly-Le-Camp
Tags: 1 Group; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); debriefing; Gee; grief; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Woodhall Spa; target indicator
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Wing Commander W J Gibbs
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from William Feeling
Unveiling ceremony of the portrait of Mr Roy Chadwick
Brian Goulding, photographer and Leonard Cheshire
Second photograph is of a ceremony, captioned 'G/Capt Cheshire V.C. at ceremony to unveil portrait of Roy Chadwick'.
Bomb aimers briefing - Paris marshalling yards
Gnome Rhone works
617 Squadron veteran reunion
Barnes Wallis and Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire and officer
A civilian and two airmen under a Lancaster with a mocked up bouncing bomb during the filming of The Dam Busters. Standing with…
Ernie Twells' Obituary and letter from the King
A letter from the King awarding Ernie Twells his Distinguished Flying Cross.
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter engine; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Lancaster; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tirpitz; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
617 Squadron veterans
Bob Knights' Obituary
Tags: 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); pilot; submarine; Tallboy; Tirpitz; V-1; V-weapon
Commemorative Dam Busters envelope
Leonard Cheshire and Rosemary Lapham
Bomber Command people
Bottom left. Photograph of Mary Brown, civilian clothes, seated in a field of…