Royal Air Force Stations in Lincolnshire
Contents
- Expansion of RAF Airfields in the 1930s
- International Bomber Command Centre.
- RAF Anwick
- RAF Bardney
- RAF Barkston Heath
- RAF Binbrook
- RAF Blyton
- RAF Bottesford
- RAF Caistor
- RAF Coleby Grange
- RAF Coningsby
- RAF Cranwell
- RAF Digby
- RAF Donna Nook (Range)
- RAF Dunholme Lodge
- RAF East Kirkby
- RAF Elsham Wolds
- RAF Faldingworth
- RAF Fiskerton
- RAF Folkingham
- RAF Fulbeck
- RAF Goxhill
- RAF Grimsby / Waltham
- RAF Harlaxton
- RAF Hemswell / Harpswell
- RAF Hibaldstow
- RAF Holbeach Range
- RAF Ingham / Cammeringham
- RAF Kelstern
- RAF Kirmington
- RAF Kirton-in Lindsey
- RAF Ludford Magna
- RAF Manby
- RAF Metheringham
- RAF North Cotes
- RAF North Killingholme
- RAF North Witham
- RAF Saltby
- RAF Sandtoft
- RAF Scampton / Brattleby
- RAF Skellingthorpe
- RAF Spilsby
- RAF Spitalgate (Grantham)
- RAF Strubby
- RAF Sturgate
- RAF Sutton Bridge
- RAF Swinderby
- RAF Waddington
- RAF Wainfleet Range
- RAF Wellingore
- RAF Wickenby
- RAF Woodhall Spa
- FIDO
- High Flight
- Folkingham in 1944
- Fulbeck 1944
- Goxhill 1947
International Bomber Command Centre.
The 'Walls of Names' remember almost 58,000 men and women who lost their lives serving or supporting Bomber Command during WW2.
Each of the 270 panels is formed from engraved sheets of Corten Weathering Steel.
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]FACTS
Almost a million men and women served or supported Bomber Command during WWII.
Over 55,500 men from Bomber Command died in the skies over Europe.
Only 30% of those that flew reached the end of WWII without being killed, injured or taken Prisoner of War.
Bomber Command crews came from over 60 different countries.
Every member was a volunteer.
The average age at death was 23.
FAMOUS OPERATIONS
Battle of Britain - 10 Jul 1940 – 31 Oct 1940
Operation Chastise – Dambusters
Operation Taxable – D.Day support
Operation Catechism - Sinking of the Tirpitz
Operation Margin - The Augsberg Raid
Operation Manna – the world’s first airborne humanitarian mission
Operation Exodus – the repatriation of over 70,000 POWs
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