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- Tags: RAF Woodhall Spa
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Squadron Leader L P Moyna
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from the Vice Chief of Air Staff
Letter to Vera Gill from OC 617 Squadron
Loss of aircraft report
Memorials at Lincolnshire Airfields
#1 is 617 squadron memorial at RAF Woodhall Spa.
#2 is 44 squadron memorial at RAF Waddington.
#3 and 4 is a plaque at 'The Wild Life' pub at Skellingthorpe.
#5 is a memorial at East Kirkby.
#6 is a close up of the…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 9 Squadron; final resting place; memorial; RAF Bardney; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Honington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; RAF Woodhall Spa
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; ground personnel; intelligence officer; 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
Mosquito
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Tags: 627 Squadron; bombing; Mosquito; RAF Woodhall Spa
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…
Note concerning unidentified photograph of crew after returning from bombing Tirpitz
Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group
Operations against Tirpitz, Ijmuiden and Bielefeld: Vielesible Viaduct
Part of a letter from Kenneth Gill to his parents
Pilot in front of Petwood Hotel
Postgram from 5 Group Headquarters to Officer Commanding 617 Squadron
Rear view - Ralph Briars memoir
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 109; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Scarecrow; searchlight; service vehicle; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
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
Relief Map of Lincolnshire's Bomber Airfields
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Tags: RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bottesford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Digby; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF East Retford; RAF Finningley; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Grantham; RAF Harlaxton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Langar; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Newton; RAF North Coates; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Peterborough; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Spilsby; RAF Strubby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Woolfox Lodge
Reply from Leonard Cheshire to 4 Group
Roseneath, Riley Car, Mosquito and Rollo Kingsford-Smith
#2 is a car, captioned 'The original "Old Mother Riley" Mk1'.
#3 is a starboard side view of a Mosquito, captioned 'Rollo Kingsford-Smith's Mosquito AZ-R 627,…
Tags: 627 Squadron; aircrew; Mosquito; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Woodhall Spa
Rotterdam
On the reverse 'On loan P&R Darby Woodhall Spa'.
Service History of Benny Goodman
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; fuelling; Grand Slam; ground crew; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Martinet; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cardington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Sydney Grimes' observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1661 HCU; 1668 HCU; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Ted Thornhill, Crew and Lancaster
A second copy has on the reverse '1943 Lancaster Ted's Crew Woodall Spar [sic] (619)'
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Woodhall Spa