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- Tags: Grand Slam
Newspaper cutting - Arnsberg here I come
Tags: 617 Squadron; bombing; Grand Slam; Lancaster; Tallboy
Newspaper cutting - Leicester DFC 10-Ton mission
Newspaper cutting - fantastic flash
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Grand Slam
'Ten-Ton Tess' pilot gets bar to DSO
Tags: aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Service Order; Grand Slam; pilot
Flight Engineer, 420 Squadron RCF, Bomber Command, RAF WWII
Lancaster and bombs
Bottom left - similar air-to-air view front port quarter of a Lancaster with further…
Nienburg Bridge after attack by 617 Sqn with Tallboys and Grand Slams
Attack on oil targets
Tags: bombing; Grand Slam
Jim Eley and Ten Ton Bomb
Tags: aircrew; Grand Slam; pilot; RAF Marham
Day Bombers Follow 1000-plane Assault
On the reverse are adverts.
Biggest Ten-Ton Raid Yet
Tags: B-24; Beaufighter; bombing; Grand Slam; Halifax; Lancaster; Spitfire
Sign notice for Grand Slam
Grand Slam bomb
Alan Edgar and crew reunion
Crew reunion
Tags: aircrew; Grand Slam; Lancaster; RAF Scampton; Tallboy
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; 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 Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Boston; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; final resting place; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; grief; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; operational training unit; Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
Lancaster gate guard with Vulcan overflight
Tags: Grand Slam; Lancaster; RAF Scampton; Tallboy
Group Captain Johnny Fauquier, Lancaster and Grand Slam bomb
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; dispersal; Grand Slam; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Woodhall Spa
Interview with Murray Valentine
Interview with Mary Stopes-Roe
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bouncing bomb; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); childhood in wartime; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Grand Slam; Lancaster; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Tallboy; Tirpitz; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
Interview with Frank Stanney
Service History of Benny Goodman
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; crewing up; 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
Interview with Anderson MacCormick
Operation to Farge
Tags: bombing; Grand Slam
Grand Slam modified Lancaster on airfield
Tags: bombing; Grand Slam; Lancaster; RAF Waddington