RAF Swinderby

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Photograph of RAF Swinderby
ⓘ licence & creditDavid Lally / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swinderby_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_931064.jpg

About

RAF Swinderby opened in Lincolnshire in 1940 as a Bomber Command station and was the first home of the Polish bomber squadrons, Nos. 300 and 301, which flew Fairey Battles and then Vickers Wellingtons, as well as the first Australian squadron in Bomber Command. It later became a heavy-conversion and flying-training station, and from 1964 the RAF’s school of recruit training until 1993. The station then closed; part of the site is now the village of Witham St Hughs, with a memorial recalling its history.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Swinderby — Wikipedia and Swinderby — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

{{En-gb|Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. A snow clearing machine at work on the main at , Yorkshire[sic], after the heavy snows of . Comment: RAF Swinderby was in , not Yorkshire.}}
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Air Force (RAF) official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CH20521.jpgView source & full licence →
{{En-gb|1=Old hangar at the former , now used as light industrial units.}}
ⓘ licence & creditRichard Croft / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_hangar_-_geograph.org.uk_-_174699.jpgView source & full licence →
{{En-gb|1= PA474 - painted as 'Thumper' - on a flypast over the site of former .}}
ⓘ licence & creditIsaac Bee / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LancasterPA474.jpgView source & full licence →
{{En-gb|IWM caption: Oblique aerial view of RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire, looking south-south-west. Vickers Wellingtons belonging to Nos. 300 and 301 Polish Bomber Squadrons RAF can be seen parked on the and on the circular pans of two three-spurred dispersals constructed across the ( ) in the foreground. On the left, a public road runs eastward from Halfway Houses (lower left) to Lane Moor Lane, dividing the airfield technical site and hangars from the domestic site (off left).}}
ⓘ licence & creditNo. 1 Camouflage Unit / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_Swinderby_aerial_photograph_April_1941_IWM_HU_93063.jpgView source & full licence →

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