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daveg4otu:

I found some superb pics of Lincolns’s taken in the 50’s on Flikr by ‘Ikinlin18’
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20762086@N05/

No aircraft in Singapore but they start with Lincolns on Gibraltar. On page two there are some pics at Changi. The shot called ‘Changi 42’ shows the ‘western dispersal’ and control tower from above and you can tell that it was once an east-west runway, as made by the Japanese. Well ‘made’ by the unfortunate British and Aussie POW’s of course. Changi was a site for the ‘big guns’ -15″ guns from a battleship that were to defend Singapore. The POWs were housed on the camp but later in the war the ‘civilian’ prisoners were moved out of Changi Gaol and the POWs moved there.
Our RAF quarter still had identifiable Japanese writing on the doors.

Here’s a report about the Constellation crash in 1954.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19540313-2

DT