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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Berlin"
Newspaper cutting - award of DFM
Newspaper cutting - DFM's two operational tours of duty
Reginald Rush operations on 101, 142, 100 and 625 Squadrons
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 625 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Lancaster; navigator; pilot; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Wellington
Flight logs 1943
List of operations
Operational navigation log - Berlin
Dennis Dowdeswell's navigator's, air bombers and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 170 Squadron; 27 OTU; 81 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Botha; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Catfoss; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ingham; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Morpeth; RAF Sleap; training; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Bomber command operations
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 189 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 6 Group; 61 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 7 Group; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; B-24; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Hurricane; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Master Bomber; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Skellingthorpe; Spitfire; Window; wireless operator
Operation night of 20/21 March 1945
Tags: bombing
Interview with Colin Bell
Colin talks of his entry interview into the RAF, his time at an…
Tags: 608 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crewing up; fear; FIDO; Fw 190; ground crew; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; Me 262; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Downham Market; RAF Grantham; RAF Prestwick; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; training; V-weapon
Newspaper cutting - Lancaster bomber display in Edinburgh
Jack Genney’s Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bombers and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1657 HCU; 7 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Oakington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; RAF Wratting Common; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
The camp - newspaper
Tags: prisoner of war
Donald Andrew’s Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 207 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Saltby; RAF Spilsby; RAF Staverton; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
Service history of Richard Stuart
Richard took part in 22 operations to Berlin, Frankfurt, Hagen, Hannover, Kassel, Leipzig, Mannheim,…
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Beaufighter; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); crash; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Catfoss; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; searchlight; training; wireless operator
Lancaster DV399 crash report
Letter from Jack Dwyer to his wife
Tags: 75 Squadron; aircrew; RAF Feltwell; Wellington
Stanislaw Sewerin's Pilots Flying Log Book. Two
Tags: 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; aircrew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Aston Down; RAF Blyton; RAF Cosford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Dunsfold; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Finningley; RAF Glatton; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wroughton; training; Wellington
William Raymond Wyrill
Tags: 242 Squadron; 51 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Beaufighter; bombing; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Gneisenau; ground crew; Hurricane; mine laying; navigator; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cranwell; RAF Credenhill; RAF Driffield; RAF Duxford; RAF Leconfield; RAF Manby; RAF North Coates; RAF Scampton; RAF St Eval; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waterbeach; Scharnhorst; sport; training
Letter to George Thomson from his father
Tags: bombing; incendiary device; propaganda
Interview with Arthur Mace
The record bomber crew
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; animal; bomb aimer; bombing; flight engineer; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Bomber crew's 228 operational record flights
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; animal; bomb aimer; bombing; flight engineer; navigator; pilot; wireless operator