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March 17, 2018, 11:55pm

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Totally wrong, all airfields were Luftwaffe targets and every airfield, Village and Town had air raid sirens.
Scampton was bombed a few times and a returning bomber was even followed home by a German fighter and shot down a few miles from Scampton with the loss of all aircrew.
It's good to see the many memorials at the various small and now unused airfields and one of note is RAF Lisset between Driffield and Bridlington in memorial to 158 Squadron.
There is a huge metal cut out of Aircrew which looks almost cartoon like with the sun behind, the Airfield itself has been turned into a wind farm but with each of the turbines named in honour of a lost bomber and crew with the final one in memory of the ground crew that died in bombing raids.
Thought provoking stuff.
Football rivalry is good and should never be watered down but I love their nod to the local heroes who flew from Scampton and all other RAF bases across Britain.
May they never be forgotten.


Correct.

I used to work in a hangar at RAF Marham that was left intact during a recent station re-jig because it was a listed building of historical value because it had bullet holes in the roof from a Luftwaffe raid. I was also posted to RAF Benson which I believe is still the most bombed single military site in Britain.

I saw the Bomber Command memorial at Lincoln for the first time today. Striking, rather fittingly.
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March 17, 2018, 11:56pm

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Your poor old Gran must think the war is still on going if she lives near the bombing range down Friskney marsh.



Been closed for years.


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Quoted from GYinScuntland


Totally wrong, all airfields were Luftwaffe targets and every airfield, Village and Town had air raid sirens.
Scampton was bombed a few times and a returning bomber was even followed home by a German fighter and shot down a few miles from Scampton with the loss of all aircrew.
It's good to see the many memorials at the various small and now unused airfields and one of note is RAF Lisset between Driffield and Bridlington in memorial to 158 Squadron.
There is a huge metal cut out of Aircrew which looks almost cartoon like with the sun behind, the Airfield itself has been turned into a wind farm but with each of the turbines named in honour of a lost bomber and crew with the final one in memory of the ground crew that died in bombing raids.
Thought provoking stuff.
Football rivalry is good and should never be watered down but I love their nod to the local heroes who flew from Scampton and all other RAF bases across Britain.
May they never be forgotten.


There might have been some locals but Bommer Command aircrews were from all over the Empire and other Allied nations.


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March 18, 2018, 8:49am
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No wonder Alan Buckley hated it when he was there it stood for everything he hated in football.
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March 18, 2018, 11:16am
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There might have been some locals but Bommer Command aircrews were from all over the Empire and other Allied nations.


Some people seriously need to take a look at themselves, red crossing simple facts.


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I think I should complain to the FA because as someone who has served in Iraq, we had the air raid siren going off several times a day, every day for months on end due to mortars being fired at us. Thanks for inflaming my PTSD Lincoln you inconsiderate twits.


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Quoted from KingstonMariner


There might have been some locals but Bommer Command aircrews were from all over the Empire and other Allied nations.

I was more on the lines of the heroes from the locality.
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There might have been some locals but Bommer Command aircrews were from all over the Empire and other Allied nations.


My mates Dad was a Polish aircrew and flew lots of missions but he wasn't a bommer, he had 4 Kids.  


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My mates Dad was a Polish aircrew and flew lots of missions but he wasn't a bommer, he had 4 Kids.  


Whoops!


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