Bomber Command Airfields of Lincolnshire - Jacobs Peter
Bomber Command Airfields of Lincolnshire - Jacobs Peter From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of…
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Bomber Command Airfields of Lincolnshire - Jacobs Peter
From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. All of Bomber Command's major efforts involved the Lincolnshire-based squadrons. Many of its squadrons were based in Lincolnshire, where the flat terrain and open fields made the county ideal for the development of new airfields.
It was also from Lincolnshire that precision raids were mounted against targets such as the diesel engine factory at Augsburg, the notorious Dortmund-Ems Canal, the mighty German battleship Tirpitz, and, of course, the Ruhr Dams. The Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg and Berlin, during the hardest years of 1943/44, were just some of those when night after night hundreds of bombers took off from the county, many never to return. Most of Lincolnshire's wartime bomber airfields have long gone, with many having reverted
Bomber Command War Diaries
3 Group Bomber Command
Folklore of Lincolnshire