British Bombers and Transport aircrafts

[stug3]

The crew of a Martin Baltimore of No. 69 Squadron RAF disembark from their aircraft at Luqa, Malta, following a reconnaissance sortie, June 1942.

 

[Wildcat]

Ya gotta love the Baltimore, its one sleek looking machine

 

[Capt. Vick]

Disembarking? More likely Embarking with the engines warming up, but take that with a grain of salt because I wasn't in Malta during the war years!

 

[stug3]

Lancaster B Mark II, DS652 'KO-B', of No. 115 Squadron RAF, undergoing a test of its Bristol Hercules VI sleeve-valved radial engines in a dispersal at East Wretham, Norfolk. DS652 failed to return from a raid on Bochum, Germany on 12/13 June 1943.

Lancaster B Mark I, W4113 'GP-J', of No. 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit based at Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, in flight. W4113 was a veteran aircraft having flown on a number of raids with Nos. 49 and 156 Squadrons RAF in 1942 and 1943.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Wayne Little]

yep...Nice!

 

[stug3]

Lancasters under construction at the A V Roe Co Ltd factory at Woodford in Cheshire, 1943

 

[vikingBerserker]

Gees, the fun I could have had..................

 

[Gnomey]

Cool shot!

 

[Airframes]

Nice one. I have the shots from the opposite end also, showing the completed airframes.
Woodford is four miles from where I live, and has now closed, after the cancellation of the latest Nimrod project. Lots of speculation as to what will happen to the airfield, and the Mk1 Vulcan parked there.

 

[stug3]

Nice one. I have the shots from the opposite end also, showing the completed airframes

Post those pics!

 

[Airframes]

Will do, when I find which books they are in. They're in more than one book, in colour and in B&W.

 

[stug3]

Two Avro Lancaster B Mk Is, R5509 'EM-G' and R5570 'EM-F', of No. 207 Squadron RAF based at Bottesford, Linclonshire, in flight. Both aircraft were eventually lost on operations, R5509 while minelaying in the Baltic on 17 August 1942, and R5570 which crashed near Milan while on a night bombing raid to Turin on 9 December 1942.

30-lb incendiary bombs, just released from an attacking aircraft, fall over the southern suburbs of Nuremberg during the night raid of 28/29 August 1942.

A bomber crew of No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF study a map, while sitting on 250-lb GP bombs which are about to be loaded into their Vickers Wellington Mark IC at East Wretham, Norfolk, 1942

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[stug3]

Night raid on Hamburg of 24/25 July 1943. Sticks of incendiaries are burning in the Altona and Dock districts (top). A photoflash bomb at lower left has illuminated the camouflaged Binnen Alster, and the Aussen Alster on which a flak position has been built.

Avro Lancaster B Mark I, R5626 'OL-E', of No 83 Squadron RAF taking off for Bremen, Germany, on the third 'Thousand-Bomber' raid, from Scampton, Lincolnshire.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[stug3]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Excellent pics.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shot!

 

[s1chris]

Two Avro Lancaster B Mk Is, R5509 'EM-G' and R5570 'EM-F', of No. 207 Squadron RAF based at Bottesford, Linclonshire, in flight. Both aircraft were eventually lost on operations, R5509 while minelaying in the Baltic on 17 August 1942, and R5570 which crashed near Milan while on a night bombing raid to Turin on 9 December 1942.

Is there any further information about the crash location of R5570?
I travel with work to Milan and onto Brescia quite frequently and I would like to visit the crash site if its is possible to locate.