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Map plan of RAF Westcott showing airfield / runways, dispersals, bomb store area, various facilities sites and Westcott village area. Top right off the end of runway just beyond a road marked A41 is an aircraft symbol annotated 'Lancaster overshoot,…

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Tells of early life in London, joining the Woman's Auxiliary Air Force in 1941 and training as a driver. Relates experiences at RAF Scampton and then with 57 Squadron as a tractor driver pulling bomb trolleys. Subsequently went to East Kirkby.…

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A group of SC bombs with their fuses removed.

Identification kindly provided by Gianluca Mazzanti of the Archeologi dell’Aria research group.

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Six airmen working on or looking on at small bomb containers. Two other airmen stand on the left.

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A group of armourers working with crane to lift bombs from bomb dump.

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Two armourers guide two general purpose bombs being lifted by crane from piled rows of bombs in bomb dump.

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Two armourers guide two general purpose bombs being lifted by a hoist from piled rows of bombs in bomb dump.

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An airman watches as a pair of general purpose bombs are lifted from piled rows of bombs in bomb dump.

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A airman driving a tractor pulls a line of bomb trolleys each carrying two general purpose bombs past a revetment.

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Six individuals standing in a row, brick buildings in the background. Captioned 'The boys from the Bomb dump Binbrook'.

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Norman George Smith completed his Australian training as a pilot before being posted to the UK. He was posted to 463 Squadron where he completed ten trips before the war ended. Although he was an officer Norman would borrow his navigator’s jacket…

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Left page: from top, descriptions of the Magister, Anson and Whitley aircraft, annotated 'RAF aircraft in which Bob did his training'.
Whitley aircraft, B-DY, C-DY and E-DY, flying in formation; bottom, crashed Whitley MH-H, annotated 'Usworth 17 11…
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