Aviation Sites
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Aslackby: memorial
to British & American
parachute and glider
troops
Buckminster: 38
Squadron tackling WWI
Zeppelin threat
Barkston Heath:
launched two major
WWII airborne assaults
Belton: first RAF
Regiment depot and
training ground
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Belvoir (Vale of):
aircraft crash sites in
the Vale
6 Bottesford:
Manchesters,
Lancasters and Dakota
C-47 aircraft
7 Caythorpe: shrine to
airborne forces through
the years
8 Folkingham: USAAF
Troop Carrier
Command & Thor
missiles
9 Fulbeck: USAAF Troop
Carrier Command &
Screaming Eagles
10 Grantham / Spitalgate:
WWI, Tiger Moths,
Bomber Command
and WWII training
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11 Harlaxton: Australian
WWI fighter squadron
& WWII relief landings
12 Long Bennington:
Lancaster crew memorial
13. Ropsley: Spitfire pilot
memorial
14 North Witham: D-Day
Pathfinders 82nd
& 101st Airborne
Divisions
15 Saltby: D-Day
operations with 82nd
Airborne Division
16 South Witham: Air
Ammunition Park &
Tallboy bomb store
17 St Vincents: Home to 5
Group Bomber Command
and USAAF HQ
18 Woolfox Lodge:
Operation Glimmer
D-day deception
operation
19 ROTOR radar:
underground radar
control bunker
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Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey mapping
with the permission of the Controller of Her
Majesty’s Stationery Office Crown Copyright. South
Kesteven District Council - Licence No. 100018662
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