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Ground crew push a 4,000lb blast bomb towards the bay of a No 419 Squadron Wellington at Mildenhall, 27 May 1942.
This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.
RAF ground crew load a bomb into a Wellington.
Military site : airfield
Built during 1933-34 as the first of the new RAF bomber aerodromes in East Anglia, Mildenhall opened with a grass airfield and two Type A hangars in October 1934. It operated primarily as an RAF medium and heavy bomber base from 1934 to 1950, when it...
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 05 February 2015 08:52:39 | Etiennedup | Changes to caption |
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Book; The Royal Air Force of World War Two in Colour. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 February 2015 09:59:59 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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IWM, Roger Freeman Collection |
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