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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Braunschweig"
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
Stanley Abbott’s Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bardney; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Joseph Fear’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bomber, Air Gunners and Flight Engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 207 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Individual history of Avro Lancaster B Mk1 R5868/7325M
Tags: 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; bombing; Cook’s tour; Fw 190; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Wroughton; RAF Wyton; V-weapon
Page from bomb aimer's flying log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Witchford
Conversations with Peter Spoden
Tags: 100 Group; 158 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 300 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Fw 190; H2S; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; Me 262; Mosquito; pilot; radar; Schräge Musik; shot down; target indicator; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Alf Morrill's RAF Navigator’s Air Bomber’s Air Gunner’s Flight Engineer’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1652 HCU; 232 Squadron; 51 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bale out; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Leconfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; York
John Waugh’s Royal Australian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 27 OTU; 467 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAAF Lowood; RAAF Narrandera; RAF Fairoaks; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kidlington; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lulsgate Bottom; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Sunderland; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Flying Officer John Waugh "Target" flight tracks
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: 467 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Waddington; tactical support for Normandy troops
Alfred Jack Coman's Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 31 Squadron RAF; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); C-47; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bramcote; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Millom; RAF Nuneaton; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Lionel Horner’s Royal Air Force Air Navigator’s Flying Log Book
Navigation training at the Pan American Airways Navigation Section, Miami and then Advanced Flying Unit in England. Posted to 29…
Tags: 1661 HCU; 29 OTU; 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; military discipline; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Sturgate; training; Wellington
Flight Sergeant Hickling
Tags: aircrew; bombing; killed in action; navigator; training
After the facts - a surmise
Air Ministry instructions Jan 14/15 1944
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Lancaster
The Bombing of Braunschweig
The Last Flight
Tags: 3 Group; 460 Squadron; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Fw 190; Halifax; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; missing in action; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Elsham Wolds; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
News paper researched cuttings of 16/17 January 1944
Included are newspapers referring to the operation at Brunswick.
Tags: Lancaster; Mosquito; Pathfinders; target indicator
Brunswick 14/15 January 1944
Email from David Fell to Paul Handel
The document has handwritten annotations.
A second copy but with only pages 3 and 4…
Tags: 576 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; lynching; mess; mid-air collision; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Finningley; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; shot down; target indicator; target photograph; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Ben Boothman's story
Summary of the last flight of Lancaster LM381
My Surmise from all accounts
The last flight of Lancaster LM381
Sketch map of Brian Clarke's last operation
There is a second copy with the outward route coloured blue and inward red.
Tags: bombing