Dr Dan Ellin
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Historian, Gremlinologist, musician, and father. @IntBCC Digital Archivist @unilincoln . @RAFIngham Trustee. All views my own. He/him. ()
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My article A ‘Lack of Moral Fibre’ in Royal Air Force Bomber Command and Popular Culture
@unilincoln
@IntBCC
@britjnlmilhist
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RIP Ron Priest. He flew 25 operations as a rear gunner with 149 Squadron from RAF Lakenheath - all on Stirlings. He was interviewed for the
@IntBCC
in 2016
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RIP Gordon 'Titch' Mercier, a Halifax mid-upper gunner with 51 & 78 Squadrons. Sadly, Gordon died yesterday, 21st of January, one day short of his 99th birthday.
@IntBCC
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@Tris_Stock
@Mantia
How about Spitfires won the battle of Britain or Columbus discovered America?
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@Mantia
History should always be open for debate and new interpretations - so facts depend on who you ask and when you ask them. As for standards - that's where historical method and use of sources come in.
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John Harvey and crew after their last operation with 625 Squadron
#OnThisDay
27 Nov 1944.
@IntBCC
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@simongerman600
We have something very similar projected on a 7m screen at the
@IntBCC
in Lincoln. It runs for around 10 minutes and shows Luftwaffe bombing and V weapons too...
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Ernest Cutts at the tail of a Halifax 'U again'
#OnThisDay
4 Feb 1945. He enlisted in the RAAF, and trained as an air gunner in Australia. He flew 34 ops with 466 and 467 Squadrons from RAF Driffield. There's a wizard interview with him in the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive.
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This sign has just gone up outside the new housing development in Scampton. Pic taken from a Smart car.
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A Vulcan flypast for Barnes Wallis on his 90th Birthday
#OnThisDay
26 Sept 1977.
@archiveslc
@IntBCC
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An addition to a very old sign on a door at Riseholme Old Hall from a few years ago
@EricIdle
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Jim Tyrie tried to order a Rolex watch while he was a POW. He recieved this reply
#OnThisDay
9 Feb 1942.
@IntBCC
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I visited the crash site of B-29 'Over exposed' today. The 'Bleaklow bomber' crashed 3 Nov 1948 with the loss of the 13 on board.
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'A sting in the tail' - drawing by air gunner John Walter Gifford Saunders. He was shot down and became a POW.
@IntBCC
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Arthur Young was born in Cardiff and died aged 19 when his Lancaster crashed near Salford on 30 July 1944. He enjoyed jazz music and played the trumpet.
@IntBCC
@RafMetheringham
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Anyone recognise this airman?
The framed photo was bought at a jumble sale near Kidderminster, West Midlands, years ago.
The photo is dated 28 Oct 1940.
@IntBCC
@WeHaveWaysPod
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For every one chap who flew in Bomber Command there were around 8 men and women working to keep them flying. A pic from the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive I could have used in my thesis. A Halifax squadron somewhere in Yorkshire
#OnThisDay
23 December 1943.
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300 Squadron Lancaster on the way to bomb Berchtesgaden
#OnThisDay
25 April 1945. From the Tadeusz Wier collection in the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive. For more on the story of Polish bomber squadrons,
@RAFIngham
is open today.
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I've just been on the wireless talking about the heritage of RAF Scampton and what happens next
@James1940
@almurray
A group of world-renowned historians have written to the government opposing plans to house asylum seekers at the historic air base.
More 👉
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The
@IntBCC
Digital Archive has pages of unidentified people, places, things and writing
#ArchiveMystery
#Archive30
Who is the WAAF?
Where are the Lancasters flying over?
What is the ship?
Can anyone make out a signature?
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A Vulcan flypast for Barnes Wallis on his 90th birthday. From the
@IntBCC
&
@archiveslc
archives.
@AvroVulcan617
26 September 1887. Barnes Wallis was born in Ripley. He invented the bouncing bomb used by RAF in the famous Dambuster raids over Germany in 1943. In the 1955 film, The Dam Busters, Wallis was played by Michael Redgrave.
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The phrase 'tickety boo' was written as 'tiggerty boo' in the 1940s and is from the Hindi 'tikai babu' meaning 'everything's fine, sir'.
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An empty Dutch victory cigarette packet. These were dropped over the Netherlands by the RAF to celebrate their Queen's birthday
#OnThisDay
31 August 1941.
@IntBCC
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First Grand Slam bomb dropped at a test range in the New Forest
#OnThisDay
13 March 1945
@IntBCC
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Storms have unearthed a Second World War pillbox on a East Runton beach and revealed its interior.
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Happy 100th birthday Jo Lancaster! He completed tours as a pilot with 40 and 12 Squadrons and was a test pilot after the war. We have two oral history interviews with him in the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive.
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I've just interviewed Thomas Jordan, an armour who served at Cosford and Scampton. He's 104 which I think makes him the oldest interviewee we have.
@IntBCC
#oralhistory
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"Darling. If by any chance you do receive this letter you will know that I shall not be coming back..."
Edward Milling died
#OnThisDay
27/28 September 1943.
@IntBCC
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When a collection comes in to the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive to be digitised we get to see items that haven't been seen outside the family for decades. We digitise them, give them back and make them public and searchable. Every now and then it feels like Christmas.
@unilincoln
Today I’ve been working with WWII Bomber Command documents. These maps belonged to a Lancaster bomber navigator (whose family kindly lent me his things). It’s been interesting matching each map with the relevant sortie report. Quite eerie, in a way.
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Ray Parke (from the crew of “The Eighth Passenger” by Miles Tripp) recently visited the Lancaster at Duxford. It was his first time back in a Lancaster in 78 years. He was interviewed for the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive in October 2016.
Photo by Dale Wiseman.
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An entry in Les Rutherford's prisoner of war diary about the
#GreatEscape
#OnThisDay
24 March 1944, and a relevant cartoon meme from Stalag Luft 3.
#TheGreatEscape75
@IntBCC
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Johnny Johnson will receive an honorary doctorate from Lincoln University in the Cathedral tomorrow.
@IntBCC
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An interview with Gordon Mercier was recently recorded by a
#volunteer
for the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive. He flew ops as a Halifax air gunner with 51, 78 and 171 Squadrons. Thanks to
@ControlTowerNC
for putting us in touch!
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Here's the full trailer. Please give them a follow folks and chip in on their fundraiser if you can. I really want to see this film. The script is wizard. (Sorry no spoilers!)
The official trailer for our short film, A Memory Owed. We are SO close to the end now, if you’d like to donate towards or Exec produce this remarkable project and help finish this film, head to the link in bio to find out more!
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Research trip to London. Off to the
@UkNatArchives
tomorrow but look what I saw at Kings Cross
@RAFBBMF
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A Day in the Life of A WW2 Bomber Command Crew - an online talk by
@LydiaJane13
Thursday evening...
@EventbriteUK
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Some more nose art from the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive. This time from the David Charles Davies collection. He flew operations with 61 Squadron and was awarded the DFM in 1943 after completing 33 operations. The first one seems familiar...
@NX611_Pilot
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'Heinkel 111... Shoot ups of aerodrome along with Ju 88 and Me 109'. You don't see this in a RAF bomber pilot's log book very often...
@IntBCC
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George Mitchell and his crew. Their Lancaster was shot down by a night fighter over Holland 8 Jan 1943.
@IntBCC
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Rear gunner and a night fighter from Ivan L Ure's POW diary soon to be added to the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive.
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Many happy returns to Bomber Command veterans George 'Johnny' Johnson who will be 97, and Charles Clarke, who will be 95 today. Both have been interviewed for the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive feature in the exhibition.
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Today is like Christmas in the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive. A collection arrived concerning LAC Ronald Schofield, a 50 Squadron flight mechanic, and to top it all, Hedley Madgett's lost log book and photo album has magically found its way to us! We'll get it digitised and added soon.
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Wizard
@WeHaveWaysPod
with Mark Johnson about Caribbean volunteers in RAF Bomber Command. John Jericho Blair's collection is in the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive, but also have a listen to Ralph Ottey's interviews. He was a driver at Coningsby and Woodhall Spa.
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If you’re a wireless operator in Bomber Command on operations I doubt you’re very concerned about a summons for riding a bicycle without lights.
@IntBCC
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115 Squadron crew walking in front of a Lancaster. They were all killed when their aircraft collided with a 186 Squadron Lancaster. on an operation to attack a synthetic oil plant
#OnThisDay
4 April 1945.
@IntBCC
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Gliders and tugs at RAF Tarrant Rushton.
Almost 500 items including log books, photographs and interviews, have been tagged 'Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)' in the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive.
#DDay78
#OnThisDay
#DDay
#Normandy
.
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It's my 10th wedding anniversary today. I wonder if my wedding photos will last as long...
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50 Squadron Lancaster ED588 on dispersal at RAF Skellingthorpe, March 1943. The aircraft was lost 29/30 Aug 1944 with all the crew.
@IntBCC
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The
@IntBCC
Digital Archive has just received a collection of papers, documents and photographs that belonged to AWM Don Bennett, the CO of Pathfinders.
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Noel Patrick Norton was born in Trinidad and flew operations as a bomb aimer with 7 Squadron.
@IntBCC
Digital Archive
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Half a million visitors? Wizard!
I've met a few of 'em including
@almurray
@SpitfireFilly
@jamesjhistory
@LydiaJane13
@sallyacb275
@BrazierMary
@knchimbiri
@harding_iain
@SarahLouMiller
@stevedarlow
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@LuciaConstance
Who's for a coffee and sausage roll?
Half a million visitors!!
We were delighted to welcome Simon and his family to the Centre as our 500,000th visitor since opening in Spring 2018. This despite 9 months of pandemic closures.
Here's to the next milestone!
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I'm listening to a speech by Arthur Harris given to the Air Gunner's Association at the RAF Club, London, 10 May 1975. It's from the
@archiveslc
and will soon be added to the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive. Fascinating stuff.
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I've had a fun couple of days, a catch up with
@SpitfireFilly
yesterday and recording with
@LydiaJane13
and
@jamesjhistory
for
@RAFBomber_Pod
this evening. Wizard!
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'That' photograph of a 514 Squadron crew. According to rear gunner Harry Dobinson (3rd from left) this was taken following a daylight operation to Duisburg
#OnThisDay
14 October 1944.
@IntBCC
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Wizard audience, wizard questions and a wizard job setting it all up and running the show. Thanks to all involved. Wish you could have been there to enjoy it too
@SarahLouMiller
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I had a wizard time at the
@WestApproaches
museum. Check it out if you haven't already
@WeHaveWaysPod
types. I'm not really cold and miserable in the photo - that's me acting.
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A wizard film about
#PolishBomberSquadrons
in Lincolnshire and some photos from the IBCC Digital Archive in celebration of Polish Heritage Day.
#PLHeritageDays
#PolesinUK
@RAFIngham
@IntBCC
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Roy Chadwick, the designer of the Lancaster, was killed
#OnThisDay
23 August 1947 in a crash of the prototype Avro Tudor from Woodford.
@IntBCC
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I see
#Lincoln
is trending so here's a pic of a Lincoln flying over
@LincsCathedral
in Lincoln. It's a photo in the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive housed by the
@unilincoln
.
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RAF Scampton has lots of important heritage. It's not only 617 Squadron folks. Pics of 49 Squadron with a Hampden Oct 1941 and airmen and a WAAF with a bus Sept 1942.
@SuellaBraverman
@ukhomeoffice
@RobertJenrick
@HE_ChiefExec
@EdwardLeighMP
@karlmccartney
@Hamish4Lincs
An Open Letter to
@SuellaBraverman
- signed by 40 historians and interested persons. SAVE SCAMPTON! Pls RT, people!
@ukhomeoffice
@RobertJenrick
@HE_ChiefExec
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Bomber Command History Day with displays and presentations, Lancaster flypast (subject to availability), reenactors, cafe, and more. Sat 18th May, West Raynham NR21 7PL
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Back from
#WHWF
@WeHaveWaysPod
just in time for the storm to break over the shire. I had a wizard time meeting and talking to so many people. I've met so many Twitter friends now. Great talks too! Thanks folks!
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I might get some flak for this, but there are no untold stories in an archive. Just ones that haven’t been brought to people’s attention yet.
#Archive30
#UntoldStories
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For those of you who don't live in Lincoln: This is not what you think.
Lincoln's historic Glory Hole to reopen after repairs
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A silver Caterpillar Club pin. Probably the smallest object in our archive. To join the club you had to have used a parachute to save your life.
#Archive30
#object
@IntBCC
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Photographs from the Joy Wallace collection. She served as a WAAF in Balloon Command. WAAFs were paid two thirds of the male rate for corresponding ranks and trades.
#InternationalWomensDay
@IntBCC
@unilincoln
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We've just added a new interview to the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive. Audrey Teasdale was conscripted in 1942 and after training, served as a WAAF at RAF Waddington. Her interview hasn't been transcribed yet but give it a listen folks it's wizard! Link in ALT...
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514 Squadron Lancasters on the way to bomb the fuel storage at Regensburg
#OnThisDay
20 April 1945.
@IntBCC
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We Interviewed this gentleman for the
@IntBCC
today. Two hours of audio and ten minutes or so video. He's rather good at talking!
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Portrait of Isabel and Andrew Bain taken
#OnThisDay
9 June 1943. He was killed in action 23/24 August 1943.
@IntBCC
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We are deeply sorry to inform you that 101-year-old Lieutenant Jan Stangryciuk-Black, a rear gunner in No. 300 "Land of Masovia" Polish Bomber Squadron, passed away today in London.
He was a great hero of Poland and Britain.
R. I. P. Thank you for defending the British sky
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Bomb aimers briefing, target photo, and log book entry for the operation to attack the benzol plant at Molbis near Leipzig.
#OnThisDay
7/8 April 1945. Using the advanced search in the
@IntBCC
Digital Archive you can find items that relate to a specific date / place.
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This is a wizard mural but it's based on a photo of Acting Flight Lieutenant David William Donaldson (left) and Pilot Officer Geoffrey O'Neill Fisher (right) in their 149 Squadron Wellington. It was taken at RAF Mildenhall in 1941 by Cecil Beaton.
@LincsLive
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Dudley Snooke died 27/28 September 1940. The crew were unable to locate RAF Scampton and their Hampden crashed on to St. Matthias Church in Lincoln.
@IntBCC
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