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	Vickers Wellington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1944, Wellingtons of Coastal Command were deployed to Greece, and performed various support duties during the RAF involvement in the Greek Civil War.
		Wellington 1A Serial Number N2980 is on display at the Brooklands Museum of Motor Sport and Aviation at Brooklands, Surrey - recovered from the bottom of Loch Ness, Scotland in 1985.
		Vickers Vincent - Vickers Valentia - Vickers Wellesley - Vickers Wellington - Vickers Windsor
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers_Wellington (1341 words)

	::Bomber Command 1939::
		Many of the senior officers in Bomber Command were experienced from World War One but none of them had experienced modern bombing as seen at Guernica in the Spanish Civil War.
		The experiences of Bomber Command in the early months of the war, led to a decision being made that night raids were far better in terms of crew survival and night flying became the norm rather than day flying.
		For this to succeed, it needed a new generation of bombers that were capable of defending themselves when attacked and delivering a payload that would cause great damage to the enemy.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /bomber_command_1939.htm (1750 words)

	wellington
		Although the first Wellington was taken on strength by the RAF in 1938, they were still rolling off the assembly line at Vickers in 1944 for use in the Far East, The Med and on OTU's in the UK.
		The Wellington was obsolete for Main Force duties with Bomber Command by mid 1943 and AVM Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris was loath to see any squadrons, aircrew or aircraft diverted to the Middle East.
		The Wellington was quite well suited to the "night precision" and "close-in army cooperation" targets of 205 Group, but did not have the defensive firepower or bombload and range capacity to continue to serve in the saturation raids that Harris conceived after mid 1944.
	www.perth.igs.net /~long/wellington.htm (1489 words)

	Brian Lawless Duigan : Australian Aviation Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By this time, the bombers, now coming into position for the attack, have been told by the seeming confusion of white, yellow and red light, just where the target is. But the Pathfinders are not satisfied even with that degree of help to the bomb-aimer.
		The Wellington was the main British bomber for the first two years of the war, although once it had been supplanted from the European theatre by Lancasters it flew until the war's end in many other theatres and in many roles.
		No 105 Squadron was the second RAF bomber squadron to fly the de Havilland Mosquito, and the author uses vivid first-hand accounts from surviving crews to support the detailed narrative of pioneering low-level and shallow dive attacks on enemy targets.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/duigan_brian_aircraft.html (4174 words)

	Wellington
		The Wellington or Wimpy as it was known, was the major bomber of the Royal Air Force between 1939 and 1943.
		Due to heavy loosed on daylight raids, the Wellington became a night bomber and from 1940 was also used as a long range bomber in North Africa.
		Wellington Mk X Bombers from 104 Squadron Royal Air Force based at Foggia in Italy make a night raid on the Messerschmitt factory at Steyr in Austria on 24/25th February 1944.
	www.aviationartprints.com /wellington_bomber.htm (1371 words)

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		Recovery of the Wellington Bomber which crashed in Loch Ness in 1940 were delayed by bad weather.
		Hopes of raising the bomber were almost dashed when the lifting apparatus developed problems and the operation had to be delayed again.
		In an amazing state of preservation (the tail lights were still in working order), the bomber was taken back home to Weybridge where it was originally built and is now at the brooklands Museum.
	www.hlf.org.uk /NHMFWeb/Database/datapage2.html?projectid=437 (92 words)

	Personal stories \| Operations
		They'd forgotten to design or produce any navigation equipment, so the Wellington bomber, which was intended to be a day bomber, had to operate at night because it was so vulnerable during the day.
		Bomber Command was pretty ineffective, but we didn't realise it at the time.
		We had the benefit of the bomber stream, and the Pathfinders marking the target, and of course an enormous weight of aircraft.
	www.rafbombercommand.com /personals_3_operations.html (4242 words)

	Vickers Wellington Bomber - Veterans Affairs Canada
		The Vickers Wellington, affectionately known as the "Wimpy," was armed with twin.330 machine guns in the nose and tail turrets.
		In service, the Wellington was known as "The Wimpy", after J. Wellington Wimpy, Popeye's friend.
		The Badge of 428 Ghost Squadron is, in a shroud, a death's head.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /remembers/sub.cfm?source=feature/wilnis/vickerghost (430 words)

	Nival Interactive \| Blitzkrieg \| Missions \| 3. Operation: Jupiter \| Vickers Wellington Bomber (England)
		The Wellington had all the external features of the best aircraft of the period, except one, it was made, not of metal, but of cloth stretched over a wooden lattice frame.
		As a bomber, the Vickers Wellington proved to be a decent design, despite the obvious vulnerability of having cloth skin in place of metal.
		Vickers Wellington Mk X main properties: Weight - 16,556kg (36,500 lbs); two engines 1,675 hp each; Speed - 410 km/h (255 mph) at 3.8km (12,500 ft) altitude; Weapons - eight 7.69mm machineguns and 1,814kg (4000 lb.) bomb-load.
	www.nival.com /blitzkrieg/chapters/3/526 (226 words)

	Online Memorial for Flight Sergeant Philippe Bédard
		On June 25, 1942, the 425th Bomber Squadron was created at Dishforth in England, as a heavy bomber squadron.
		During wartime, it served in the U.K, North Africa and RCAF's Debert Station, Nova Scotia, where it was disbanded on September 5, 1945.
		This Wellington cutaway shows how the aircraft was manned and the different systems operated by the crew members.
	www.world-war-2-planes.com /online-memorial.html (458 words)

	The Vickers Wellington
		Indeed, such was the brilliant battle record of the Wellington that any tribute can be but a pale reflection of the distinctions that this remarkable warplane won for itself.
		More than any other bomber, the Wellington proved the power-operated gun turret to be a formidable defensive weapon, but it disproved the widely-held belief that large bombers could undertake daylight bombing attacks against heavily defended areas without fighter escort.
		The pattern for this new bomber was set by an official specification, B.9/32, issued in the middle of 1932, for a twin-engined day bomber of appreciably higher performance than any previously envisaged.
	www.guernsey.net /~mlihou/vickers_wellington.htm (1221 words)

	Wellington Bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Vickers Wellington was a twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Surrey by R.K.Pierson.
		Popularly known as the "Wimpey", it was widely used in the first two years of World War II before being replaced as a bomber by much larger four-engine designs like th Avro Lancaster.
		The Wellington used a unique geodetic construction designed by the famous Barnes Wallis for airships and used to to build the Vickers Wellesley bomber.
	www.divetheworld.com /Diving/warbirds/Wellington (189 words)

	Memories of RAF Marham - Don Bruce - Observer 115 Squadron -POW Stalag VIIIB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On every wartime bomber station there is an intermission prior to the commencement of operations.
		Having overcome their operational teething problems, including writing off a Wellington when returning from a raid, they were now settled in to completing a tour of 30 operations.
		This crew had been allocated Wellington BJ670 KO-K. At 0235 hours Hauptmann Helmut Lent of the II./NJG1 was patrolling the skies around the Hamburg area in a Bf110 night fighter.
	www.rafmarham.co.uk /history/memories/memory7.htm (2952 words)

	Vickers Wellington aircraft profile. Aircraft Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		The Vickers Wellington was a British built twin-engined medium bomber of geodetic construction which was first deployed with the RAF in 1937, and the prototype first flew on 15 June 1936.
		It was the main British bomber during the first part of WWII, but the RAF was soon forced to abandon daylight attacks because of its vulnerability.
		Wellingtons L4244, L4303 etc were used for ASV training from February 1944 with 783 squadron, and Wellington HE274 served on Fighter affiliation with 765 squadron up until 1946.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /aircraft/Wellington.htm (417 words)

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		The Dambusters March was composed by the contemporary English composer Eric Coates in 1954 for the film "The Dambusters" (1956) to commemorate Bomber Command's 1943 air raid against the dams in the Eder, Sorpe and Möhne rivers.
		For that purpose Barnes Wallis, the engineer who invented the geodetic construction of the Wellington bomber, developed a rotating bomb that would bounce on the surface of these rivers, breaking the dams at collision.
		Beside the tactical objectives, this raid was very important for propaganda reasons: their was much political pressure on the staff of Bomber Command, because of the lack of results in comparison to the high losses suffered.
	www.cupofwonder.com /live2.html (1195 words)

	WW2 Warbirds: the Vickers Wellington Wimpey - Frans Bonné
		The Wellington B.Mk X was dimensionally identical to the Wellington Mk IC, and had the same offensive and defensive armament as the Wellington Mk III.
		The first true version of the Wellington that was not a bomber was the GR.Mk VIII which was used against German submarines in the Atlantic.
		The Wellington was the main bomber of Bomber Command at the outbreak of the War, and remained so for quite some time.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/vickwelling.html (2946 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| WW2 bomber pulled from sand
		Wellingtons were central to Britain's wartime bombing effort - but while more than 11,000 were made, only two have been recovered and restored.
		The last Wellington to be restored was recovered from Loch Ness in 1985 and is now on show at Surrey's Brooklands Museum.
		Designed by Sir Barnes Wallis, of Dambusters fame, the Vickers Wellington was a bomber and also used for maritime reconnaissance.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/scotland/2094410.stm (292 words)

	Wellington Bomber crash site near Oakworth, West Yorkshire
		This webpage is to commemorate the crew of a Wellington Bomber which crashed into a hillside on a training mission on January 2nd 1944, with the loss of all her men.
		On the night of Jan 1944 after we children had gone to bed there was a huge crash followed by a explosions, my Father went to investigate and fund that a Wellington bomber had crashed into the quarry about half a mile from the farm.
		When we went to look later we could see that the plane had approached from the south west leaving a wing in the next field, the Wellington bomber had flattened about 12 yards of the wall, and chopped off the trees as it crashed into the quarry tip.
	www.andywade.co.uk /wellington (585 words)

	Ramsbury at War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Wellington Bomber Navigator's seat shown in the above photograph was given to me by Mrs Betty Phillips from Hungerford.
		The seat had been 'acquired' during the war by Betty's father, who had taken it from a Wellington bomber which crash landed near their home at Eastridge.
		The dotted line represents the Wellington's path as it slid across the field, the 'X' indicating its final resting place.
	www.ramsburyatwar.com /crashes/wellingtoneastridge.htm (380 words)

	Stof's Wellington Page
		The most successful bomber of the first category was without any doubt the Vickers-Armstrong Wellington, designed by Sir Barnes Wallis, who became later famous for his "bouncing bomb" used by the Dambuster raids over the Ruhr.
		Various engines were used on the Wellington, and its role switched slowly as war went on from a long-range bomber for Bomber Command, to a reconnaissance and anti-submarine search plane for Coastal Command; several Wellingtons also finished their career after World War II as transports.
		Because it was fully fabric-covered, the Wellington was nicknamed the "Cloth bomber"; however for its crews, who really appreciated this resistant and efficient bomber, it was simply the "Wimpy".
	perso.orange.fr /christophe.arribat/stofwell.html (533 words)

	Wellington Bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Wellingtons were affectionately called 'Wimpy' from the cartoon character, Wellington Wimpy, who was a 'side-kick' of 'Popeye', the spinach eating cartoon sailor.
		I think it was Wellingtons that were used in the 'Dam Busters' raid in Germany.
		I have seen a static display of one such aircraft with the launching gear and a 'spinning' bomb of the type used.
	homepage.eircom.net /~wrgi/wellingtonwat.html (176 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotland - Bomber memorial to Highland dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Andy Brown was 15 when he and two of his relatives discovered the wreckage of a Wellington bomber which had ploughed into a peak on the Cairngorms during a training mission, claiming the lives of all six crewmen on board.
		It is a memory which has haunted him throughout his life and spurred his determination to build a lasting tribute to the Wellington crew who were killed in January 1942, and every other serviceman who died on similar training flights in the Highlands.
		One of the twin engines of the bomber, recovered from the crash site, now forms the centrepiece of a poignant memorial, erected next to the existing war memorial in the village of Braemar on Royal Deeside.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=909982003 (789 words)

	eBay - wellington bomber, Models, Kits, Autographs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		RAF Bomber Wellington FDC Signed William Reid VC
		"ERNIE" Wellington Bomber - Sergeant Observer in WW2
		Wellington Bomber World War II Aircraft Illustrated PB
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=wellington+bomber&... (238 words)

	RAF Bomber Command: Aircraft, Munitions, Stats, Missions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Two more 'thousand' bomber raids followed, on 1/2 June 956 bombers were sent against Essen but heavy flak and cloudy weather prevented the raid from doing substantial damage.
		The advantages of the system were that any aircraft with the necessary receiving equipment on board could use it and, unlike the beams along which the German bombers flew to their targets, the GEE pulses were not themselves directed anywhere so that, even if detected, they would not reveal the bombers' potential destinations.
		To prevent German decoy fires from drawing bombers off the intended target TIs were made in a series of colors; red, yellow, green, etc., and used in a predetermined order which varied from raid to raid.
	www.ww2guide.com /britishb.shtml (7437 words)

	W.W.II. Wellington Bomber Model. c.1940(Chris Balm Early Aviation & Motoring Items) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Interesting chrome plated model of a RAF Vickers Wellington bomber fashioned from a solid piece of brass.
		The Wellington bomber was designed by Barnes Wallace (better known for his bouncing bomb) and was built by the Vickers aircraft factory based on the site of the old Brooklands motor racing circuit in Surrey, England.
		These aircraft were the main RAF bombers for the first two years of W.W.II.
	www.cjbalm.com /auto-aero/aitem42.htm (116 words)

	Salvage of Vickers Wellington Bomber HE 727 - Veterans Affairs Canada
		In 1995, a private foundation ‘Salvage Vickers Wellington 1943 Foundation', initiated the salvage of Vickers Wellington Bomber HE 727 which crashed in the early hours of May 5, 1943 near the village of Wilnis, The Netherlands.
		The plane's pilot, Warrant Officer R.B. Moulton was also killed during the crash and is buried in the Wilnis General Cemetery.
		Both the wireless operator Sergeant Howard H. Hoddinott and the navigator, Sergeant Gordon C. Carter, parachuted out of the burning bomber and were taken prisoner by the Germans.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=feature/wilnis/salvage (813 words)

	British Military Personality. World War 2 Royal Air Force 149 Sqn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His rank was Aircraftman 2nd class 623761 149 squadron rear gunner in a Wellington bomber based at Mildenhall.
		In April 1940 his mother and father received the sad news that their son Harry's Wellington came down over the coast of Norway and that Harry was missing, presumed dead.
		The official report of the Heligoland battle stated that ''The laurels go to the Wellington bombers, which resisted the most desperate, and, it may be said also, the most courageous and dashing efforts of the enemy's crack fighters to break them up,''
	www.gillottfamilyhistory.com /WW2_RAF_Rear_Gunner_Harry_Gillott.html (972 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Wellington Vickers, Militaria, Model Kits, Great Britain items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Vickers Wellington Plane Mint condition still in box.
		FORGOTTEN BOMBERS OF THE RAF Avro Anson BRISTOL BOMBAY
		Corgi Vickers Wellington 99 Sqn RAF Burma AA34802
	search-desc.ebay.co.uk /Wellington-Vickers_W0QQftsZ2 (330 words)

	Crew of Wellington Bomber W5421 - Escape and Evasion in wartime Belgium
		On the 5th August 1941 at 22.25 hour a Vickers Wellington II bomber W5421 PH G for George of 12 Squadron RAF took off from RAF Binbrook bound with 12 other Wellingtons for a raid on the railway marshalling yards in the German city of Aachen.
		The Germans at the time were under cover in shelters, as other bombers unable to reach Antwerp by their deadline were jettisoning their bombs near the airfield.
		The Germans probably believed the crew had been trapped in the burning aircraft and only in the morning light realised that there were no bodies in the plane, this gave the crew valuable time to climb the barbed wire and escape.
	home.clara.net /clinchy/neeb1b.htm (1718 words)

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