Dan Ellin

I used give Pip a lift to the 44 Sqn reunions as she lived nearby. Remember Waddo control tower gave her a tour whilst the BBMF flew past (under the height of said Tower!) The station c/o said he must have sneezed and missed the flyby unfortunately. Nice one Groupie. 😆

Head and shoulders photograph of Pip Beck in uniform. She is wearing a peaked cap and the RAF eagle insignia is visible on the left shoulder of her tunic.

Over 1,000 items in the @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social are tagged Women's Auxiliary Air Force. One of our volunteers is currently working on Pip Beck's 3 photo albums. She served as a wireless operator in the watch office at RAF Waddington. #InternationalWomensDay #History

Reuniting the Cast and Crew of BBC Radio 4's Bomber | Podcast YouTube video by The Aviation Show

Jonathan Ruffle recorded the interviews used in Bomber, most of them are on his website.

We discussed them at length during our reunion episode.

youtu.be/JC3MHL2gRUQ

Good question, I can't remember. I'll ask Ade Bean, the director. I know the actors were all speaking in to coffee cups to get the sound right.

A packed house at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln last night for my talk on Bomber Command’s gardening operations during the Second World War. It was fantastic to meet so many readers and podcast listeners in person—thank you to everyone who came along!

Absolutely wizard talk and great company. Buy Janes' book if you missed this, it's all in there.

Jane , a crowd of people, and the cover of her book on the screen behind her

@lydiajane13.bsky.social starting her lecture at the IBCC to a full house. She really knows her onions... @nmtdambusters.bsky.social

AIR RAID From the harsh tides of paralysing sound Swift sparks of resurrected pain appear In choking fires of imagination’s twist, Stirring torn heartbeats, quickened and profound Which blind my brain into a sickening mist And the ecstatic sunrises of fear. 5 Mar 44 Worthing – Tuddenham. IBCC Digital Archive item #30958

Harold Yeoman He flew operations as a pilot with 12 Squadron. He also wrote poetry. This is his poem 'Air Raid' written #OTD 5 March 1944. #WW2 #History #bombing #war #WorldNews

Colin Bell mid laugh on the sofa at the Beeb.

Colin Bell on BBC Breakfast on his 105th birthday this morning.
From about 08:19 on the iPlayer.

Ep 67 is out today. German historian Thomas Rost takes us through bomb disposal in wartime Hamburg, including the use of prisoners & concentration camp inmates for this horrific work. A fascinating but disturbing story.

www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

The Great Escapism by David McCormack YouTube video by Barnthorn Publishing

David McCormack's book 'The Great Escapism' contains the stories of POWs including Alfie Fripp, Peter Butterworth, and Cy Grant - as well as a fair bit of cross dressing. #History #WW2 #HistBookChat @barnthorn.bsky.social

Pencil drawing "Last night's air raid." Seven caricature figures, five men and two women in a room. Three men are conversing on the left in front of fireplace. A woman sits reading a newspaper on a chair and another woman stands in front of her with paper in hand. On the right two men in front of a window converse while both gesticulating. Dated '4.3.41' Entitled 'Last Night's Air Raid'. Captioned 'L to R. Mr Guyatt, David Iliffe, Mr Sunman, ?Joy Suter, Charlie Aslin, Nat Davy'. IBCC Digital Archive item #18151

Drawing by William Akrill (1922 - 1943) of folks discussing an air raid #OTD 4 March 1941. Seems like there's far too many people all over the world doing exactly the same thing this morning. #WW2 #History #bombing #war #WorldNews

Council bids to buy former Lincolnshire Dambusters RAF base The local council wants to transform RAF Scampton into an aviation testing centre.

Scampton first opened in 1916 and re-opened in 1936. It wasn't only home to 617 Squadron during the Second World War; 49, 83, 57, 83, 153, and 625 Squadrons flew from there, and it was part of both 5 Group and 1 Group. Concrete runways were laid in late 1943, and it finally closed in 2022.

An airman points rifle at another airman who is blindfolded and tied to fence post while another airman directs. On the reverse 'Easby gets "shot" at V.H.F. by Bob Varley. Woodford gives the fatal signal, 3.3.40'. IBCC Digital Archive item #41076

Don't point firearms at people folks.

I'm on a loop of Detectorists, Ghosts, and Small Prophets.

If you can get to the IBCC in Lincoln on Thursday folks get a ticket for this!
Jane really knows her Onions!

I think it's a skipping rope?
We've pics of a Halifax in the archive with a naked woman nose art that is later painted out...

Halifax 'E' and aircrew 51 Squadron aircraft 'E' after 100 Ops Description Side view of the front of a Halifax. On the nose a silhouette of a chorus girl with 'Expensive Babe'. Under the cockpit, four rows of 25 bomb symbols and one swastika. In front seven aircrew in flying suits and Mae Wests walking away from aircraft. On the reverse '1/45 A/C 100 OPS' and filing codes. IBCC Digital Archive item #9522

Expensive Babe, a 'ton-up' Halifax on 51 Squadron.
@lydiajane13.bsky.social #History #WW2 @nmtdambusters.bsky.social @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social

Virtually perhaps. I'm going to be in Canada later in the year.

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it . Alt: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .

More for my trip to Canada booked. Flights, motorhome and car hire, hotels, and Niagara sightseeing: sorted - only got a last bit of accommodation and the flights home to sort out. Bit of maths first. $ £...

Some of it was... @jdkightly.bsky.social ?

Adrian Constable – Three Legendary Airline Characters of the 1930s
@jamesjhistory.bsky.social & @jdkightly.bsky.social – Fictional Facts: Where Fiction Tells the Truth – British Aerial Stories from Biggles to A Piece of Cake
Helen Doe – The Legend of Bob Stanford Tuck: An Analysis

There's still time to register and attend the final session folks!
Saturday 28 February | 6:30–8:30pm Brisbane
(Saturday 28 February | 8:30am London | 3:00am US East Coast)

Another wizard session this morning...
Alessandro Pesaro on Pippo the Phantom Aircraft: Aviation Lore in Second World War Italy
Ian Castle Will the Real von Buttlar Please Stand Up?
Dan Ellin The Legend of the Scarecrow Flare
Brett Holman When Was the Red Baron?

a group of men are posing for a picture in front of an airplane and one of them has the letters rnn on his chest Alt: Horrible Histories Battle of Britain song

A wizard start to Print the Legend @avculturesconf.bsky.social
Amanda Laugesen on Australian Aviation War Memoirs
Kristen Alexander on Clive Caldwell’s Photographic Archive
Guillaume de Syon on the “Real” Count von Zeppelin
Jeffrey Schultz on Reappraising Billy Mitchell

The Gremlins Rough Cut - The Gremlins Museum The Gremlins Rough Cut presents the film in its earliest form: longer and alternative takes, deleted plot points, larger character arcs, raw camera audio with animatronic puppet sounds, and a movie wh...

Three hours of Gremlins. What could possiblt gi wrumh?

New shiny exhibition refit at the BBMF Visitor Centre, RAF Coningsby.

Then there's my 'Penguins and Chop Girls: RAF Bomber Command ground personnel 1939-45' talk on Friday 27 February at the Grandstand on Saxilby Road, Lincoln from 6pm.

I’ll be talking about ‘Scarecrows’ at the @avculturesconf.bsky.social's online Print the Legend event 27-28 Feb. Talks by @jdkightly.bsky.social ly.bsky.social @jamesjhistory.bsky.social esjhistory.bsky.social @airminded.org d.org and @kristenauthor.bsky.social tenauthor.bsky.social too

an elderly woman in a blue jacket is holding a megaphone to her mouth . Alt: Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo Dorothy's mother in Golden Girls holding a megaphone to her mouth.

I'm giving two talks in one day - not quite Phill Collins and Live Aid but there you go...
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