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- Tags: RAF East Kirkby
- Type is exactly "Photograph"
Lancaster model
Photograph 2 is of Lancaster model flying captioned ' "Suedcoat Charlie" lives East Kirkby'.
Photograph 3 is of a large Lancaster model [?]E-C.
Photogrpah 4 is of…
Tags: arts and crafts; Lancaster; RAF East Kirkby
Brian Goulding fly in to view East Kirkby Lancaster
Photograph 2 is of three men and a dog at the side of a Range Rover. They are captioned 'Brian Goulding fly in to view East Kirkby Lanc'.
Tags: animal; RAF East Kirkby
Lancaster before reassembly at East Kirkby
Tags: Lancaster; RAF East Kirkby
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'.
John Chatterton's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 44 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 81 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Meteor; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Sleap; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Tilstock; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Commemorative Plaque
On the left and right - RAF bases and operations carried out from them.
On the right - a map on northern Europe and United…
Terence Leedham's life
Philip Jackson
Tags: Lancaster; RAF East Kirkby
Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…
Tags: 5 Group; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; Guinea Pig Club; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator
57 Squadron photograph
Tags: 5 Group; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF East Kirkby
Seven airmen
Tags: aircrew; Nissen hut; RAF East Kirkby
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
Flight Lieutenant Freddie Spencer DFC
Tags: 106 Squadron; 120 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 19 OTU; 630 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Walney Island; searchlight; training; Whitley