Top: Approximately 200 airmen seated and standing in six rows in front of a Lancaster which is in front of an open hangar. Captioned: 'No. 166 SQUADRON R.A.F STATION, KIRMINGTON. May 1945'.

Bottom left: Eight aircrew standing in a line on the starboard side of Lancaster PA 320, below the mid-upper turret. The open rear door is to the left and the roundel and aircraft
code letters, AS-Y, are visible on the fuselage.

Bottom right: An oblique view of the front of a Lancaster with eight aircrew standing in a line below the nose. The aircraft code letter Y is visible on the side of the nose and on the wheel chocks.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> 1945-05]]>
]]> Nine images on three sheets of selected pages from George Royall's log book, each showing a double page spread. 

The three images on the first sheet cover nine bombing operations as well as training and air test flights. Each image has the operational targets listed alongside.

The three images on the second sheet cover air tests and flights for Operations Dodge and Exodus.

Two images on the third sheet cover flights for Operation Dodge. The third image shows accumulated flying hours. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Mansfield.

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G Royall]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Royall, George. No 166 Squadron]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Halle an der Saale]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Hanau]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Paderborn]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Tibenham]]> Italy]]> Italy--Pomigliano d'Arco]]> Germany--Hannover]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-04]]> 1945-06]]> 1945-08]]> 1945-09]]> 1945-10]]>

Church identification kindly provided by Geoff Everitt, Eugenie Heon and Michael J. Riley of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Facebook Group.]]>
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#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 East Kirby memorial.
#7 and 8 are the memorial at RAF Skellingthorpe with and without a group of children from Manser Primary School.
#9 is a poem 'Old Airfield' on a stone at East Kirkby.
#10 and 11 is a memorial at Skellingthorpe Village Hall.
#12 is a memorial at RAF Wickenby.
#13 and 14 is a memorial clock and plaque at the parish church, Waddington.
#15 is a memorial to 101 squadron at Ludford Magna.
#16 is the grave of Pilot Officer JM Cave
#17 and 18 are the memorial to 9 squadron at Bardney.
#19 is a memorial to 460 squadron at RAF Binbrook.
#20, 21 and 22 are a parade of 50 and 61 old comrades at RAF Skellingthorpe.
#23 is 625 squadron memorial at RAF Kirmington.
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Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photograph of Cologne. The river is visible but about a third of the image is obscured by bomb explosions. The clear sections have great detail of industrial area, street patterns and railways. F/O Bonsall is captioned as pilot in both images. Caption '3315KRN. 2-3-45//8" 17000' 090° 1000 COLOGNE K I HC 4000 IN 12ANM64 4GP250 DTC 34 SECS F/O BONSALL K166']]>
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'Lancaster Crew . 166 Squadron . Kirmington
L-R Bill Oliver Bomb Aimer, Jack Hammond Mid Upper Gunner, Eddie Helmore Wireless Operator, Bill Bonsal Pilot, Alfred Vice Navigator, Philip Jackson Flight Engineer'.]]>
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