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John Glashan’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book
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John Glashan’s Flying Log Book from 19th October 1942 until 25th August 1944. He flew as a navigator. He trained with No. 3 Air Observers School in Canada. Attended No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School, 26 and 29 Operational Training Units and…
William Caruthers' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book for W D Y Caruthers, air gunner, covering the period from 1 May 1944 to 28 May 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at 10 Air Gunnery School RAF Walney…
A conversation with Oliver Wells
Transcript of oral history interview. He starts with a brief service history, 7 Squadron Oakington, Stirling and later Lancaster. He was shot down on his seventh operation, was captured after 4 months and became a prisoner of war. He begins with a…
Lille
Vertical aerial reconnaissance photograph of Southeast Lille, with significant areas of industrial buildings serviced with many railway lines and sidings with some domestic buildings mainly towards the top left. Agricultural land lies to the bottom…
Lille
Typewritten report (K1469) interpreting photographs of bomb damage in Lille following a daylight attack on 13 January 1943 by 64 B17 Fortress aircraft of the USBC, with fighter escort. Damage to the Fives-Lille works, Ateliers d' Hellemes and Dufour…
Lille
A navigational chart of Lille and surrounding area. A route has been plotted across the top right of the sheet.
John Waugh’s Royal Australian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
John Waugh’s Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 9th March 1942 until 15th April 1945. Initial pilot training in Australia at 12 Elementary Flying Training School, 8 Elementary Flying Training School, then Canada at 8 Service Flying Training School. Posted…
Flying Officer John Waugh "Target" flight tracks
A map of western Europe overlaid with the tracks of 34 operations undertaken by John and his crew.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Norman Piercy - Research Notes
A brief biography of Norman's service in the RAF. Included are details of George Davis.
List of Ron Brown's operation on 218 Squadron and 75 Squadron
List 30 completed operations with 218 Squadron Stirling's from RAF Woolfox Lodge. List crew for these operations. Includes one glider towing operation on 6 June 1944. Transfers via heavy conversion unit onto Lancaster and flies a further 34…
9 Squadron handwritten Operation Record Book. Two
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This is a handwritten record of the operations of 9 Squadron from 18th November 1943 to 16th June 1944. For each operation it includes many details of the target, routes, bomb load, a description of results, and if any did not return. Inserted is the…
P M Edge’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book. One
P M Edge’s Flying Log Book as a bomb aimer from 20th March 1943 until 28th September 1944. Initial bombing and gunnery training at 41 Air School in South Africa, before posting back to the UK in September 1943. Further training at 10 Advanced Flying…
Jack Whalley’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Jack Whalley’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 9th July 1941 until 10th October 1952. Initial training at No. 9 Air Observers School as an air observer, navigator, air gunner and bomb aimer. Further training as…
Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille
An oblique aerial photograph of Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille.
Identification kindly provided by Toby Clempson and Velma Allen of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Facebook Group.
Identification kindly provided by Toby Clempson and Velma Allen of the Unidentified photos of the British Isles Facebook Group.
James Inward's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Observer's and air gunner's flying log book for James Inward covering the period 21 February 1942 to 30 September 1944. Details training and operations flown. He served at RAF Middleton St George, RAF Fayid, RAF Riccall and RAF Burn. Aircraft flown…
Walter Braithwaite’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s flying log book
Walter Braithwaite’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s flying log book which includes a majority of his training, both stationed in Britain and Canada. Flights are recorded from the 2nd July 1942 to 13th July 1945. Walter began operations on 17th September…
Frank Howkins’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book for F Howkins, wireless operator, covering the period from 29 April 1943 to 30 August 1953. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, and post was flying with number 5 Reserve Flying…
K A L Killeen’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book one, for K A L Killeen, navigator, covering the period from 3 April 1943 to 2 August 1946. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and duties with communications flights. He was stationed at SAAF…
Hastie DFC: The Life and Times of a Wartime Pilot
A biography of Roy Hastie.
Harrold Wakefield's navigator's, air bombers and air gunner's flying log book
Harold Wakefield's RAF Navigator's, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book, from 16th August 1943 to 16th August 1946, recording training, operations, instructional duties and Transport Command duties to India and the Far East as a flight…
Flight Log to Stuttgart
An abstract of a flight log to Stuttgart. It contains details of each leg including an attack by night fighters.
George Bilton - observers and air gunners log book
Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying log book for George Bilton, flight engineer, covering the period from 18 August 1943 to 1 August 1946. Detailing his final flying training, operations flown, instructional postings and flying in transports. He was…
War Memoir - George Bilton
George talks of early life at school and work in Hull. He volunteered as ARP messenger and describes his duties and air raid damage in Hull. He then volunteered as aircrew and, initially was selected for wireless operator/air gunner but later asked…
Navigation chart - operation number 20
Map showing south east England northern France, Belgium and Netherlands. Pencilled route from Lincoln area to just north of Lille. Annotated top left 'Op No. 20, 20/7/44, Coutrai (Kurtrijk Belgium)'. On the reverse 'Op. No. 20 (20/7/44), Courtrai)'.