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- Tags: RAF Coningsby
List of aircraft flown
Tags: 149 Squadron; 463 Squadron; Anson; B-29; Bolingbroke; bombing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Margaret Dixon's account of her early life and service in the Women's' Auxiliary Air Force
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; entertainment; evacuation; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF Hednesford; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Metheringham; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
MT Section RAF Coningsby - Bomber Command MT Cup Winners 1946-47
Underneath each individual is named.
Muriel Meen's Service History
Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group
Notes on Bomber Command
Page 31 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Two colour photographs of Lancasters from an online source.
Photo 1 is the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster in flight.
Photo 2 is the Canadian…
Tags: Lancaster; RAF Coningsby
Page 32 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Also front cover of Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight booklet.
Includes…
Tags: Lancaster; RAF Coningsby
Page 33 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 1 - an aerial photograph of Coningsby with arrows showing the location of the Main Guard Room and the arrival gate.
Item 2 - a location diagram…
Tags: aircrew; guard room; RAF Coningsby; Spitfire
Page 34 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 - Denis Bradbury standing at the personnel ladder of Lancaster PA474.
Photo 3 - close up of Denis standing at the personnel ladder of the Lancaster.
Photo 4 - Denis standing…
Tags: ground crew; Lancaster; RAF Coningsby
Page 40 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 - a view of a hangar and Spitfire across the wing of the RAF Lancaster.
Photo 3 - Denis and the Canadian pilot at the tail of the Canadian Lancaster, VR-A, captioned 'The…
Page 41, 42 and 43 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 - a front image of a Spitfire in the hangar.
Photos 3 and 4 - Denis Bradbury…
Page 44 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 - Dakota, annotated 'Fly-past Dakota'.
Photo 3 - Spitfire P7350, annotated 'Spitfire in hanger [sic]'
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No…
Tags: C-47; memorial; RAF Coningsby; Spitfire
Page 45 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 is a side view of the RAF Lancaster, undergoing maintenance.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: Lancaster; RAF Coningsby
Page 46 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 - an air-to-air image of a Percival Proctor.
Photo 3 - modern photograph with a side view of a Lancaster and E-7 Sentry in the distance.
Photo 4 -…
Pages 35 and 36 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 1 - the cockpit, annotated 'Pilot…
Pages 37, 38 and 39 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 - the Lancaster taxing in after landing with the nose of a second Lancaster on the left.
Photo 3 - the Lancaster parked annotated 'Parked for passengers & crew to…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; ground crew; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Coningsby
Peter Hazeldene's Log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lysander; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Politz
R Purnell Log book extract
RAF Coningsby
Identification kindly provided by David Parker of the…
RAF Coningsby Freedom March
Photograph is a marching band of airmen captioned 'Cranwell Band leading parade'.
Tags: entertainment; 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…