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Aviation Sites 1 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 2 3 4 5 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 9 7 12 3 4 6 10 5 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 17 13 8 11 1 2 15 14 16 18 19 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 5