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Ken Hemmings Autobiography
Tags: 100 Group; 1663 HCU; 192 Squadron; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; briefing; C-47; Catalina; Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Harvard; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Me 163; Me 262; Me 410; medical officer; mess; mid-air collision; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; radar; RAF Benson; RAF Burnaston; RAF Calveley; RAF Foulsham; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Locking; RAF Melksham; RAF Paignton; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF Torquay; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Victory in Europe Day (8 May 1945); Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
W J (Bill) Crimmin’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. One
Training started at No. 4 British Flying Training School in Phoenix, Arizona. This continued at No. 3 Service Flying…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 161 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 25 OTU; 3 SFTS; 4 BFTS; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); British Flying Training School Program; Flying Training School; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Hornet Moth; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Martinet; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bircotes; RAF East Wretham; RAF Finningley; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halton; RAF Ipswich; RAF Marham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tempsford; searchlight; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Ken Johnson’s Royal Air Force Observers and Air Gunners Flying Log Book
Trained at No. 2 Air Gunners School, 29 Operational Training Unit, 1654 Conversion Unit, and No 5 Lancaster…
Tags: 1654 HCU; 29 OTU; 61 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Prinz Eugen; RAF Bardney; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dalcross; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; Tallboy; training; Wellington
Chan Chandler's biography
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air sea rescue; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bismarck; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); briefing; C-47; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; forced landing; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; master bomber; Me 109; mess; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Andover; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Coningsby; RAF Croydon; RAF Earls Colne; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Honington; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Manston; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Middle Wallop; RAF Northolt; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Scharnhorst; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Tallboy; target indicator; target photograph; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
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
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
78 Squadron history
A second copy is a typed version of this.
Tags: 10 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 1659 HCU; 1663 HCU; 187 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 297 Squadron; 346 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 4 Group; 405 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 6 Group; 617 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 9 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Breighton; RAF Croft; RAF Dalton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; Tirpitz; training; Whitley
K W Payne's Royal Australian Air Force flying log book
Tags: 12 OTU; 1652 HCU; 192 Squadron; 26 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Catalina; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAAF Bundaberg; RAAF Narrandera; RAAF Parkes; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Croughton; RAF Foulsham; RAF Kidlington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Shenington; RAF Weston-on-the-Green; RAF Wing; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window
Archibald Steele’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Grantham; RAF Metheringham; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodley; RCAF Brandon; RCAF Penhold; RCAF Virden; Tiger Moth; training
G W A White’s Royal Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1652 HCU; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 78 Squadron; Admiral Scheer; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Blenheim; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Breighton; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pembrey; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Sturgate; RAF Waddington; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Harry Brabin memoir
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; master bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Victory in Europe Day (8 May 1945); Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
1945
Francis Rooke’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book.
Tags: 100 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 214 Squadron; 37 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fayid; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RCAF Moncton; Tiger Moth; training
A Tour of Operations with RAF Bomber Command No XV/15 Squadron Mildenhall - Third book of memoirs by Bob Smith
Tags: 1 Group; 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 186 Squadron; 195 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 5 Group; 514 Squadron; 6 Group; 617 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; escaping; flight engineer; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; master bomber; Me 109; mess; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Sealand; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Weston Zoyland; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; target photograph; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
George Shepherd’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1657 HCU; 214 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Andreas; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Shenington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Witchford; Stirling; training; Wellington
Navigation chart for operation to Neuss
Navigation chart for operation to Flensburg
Navigation logs for operation to Flensburg
Raymond Harris's Pilot's log book
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 50 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Fw 190; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Bardney; RAF South Cerney; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RCAF Bowden; Stearman; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Rowland Kethro's Wartime Service and Operations Record
Tags: 106 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 189 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 405 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 6 Group; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Flying Training School; H2S; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Bardney; RAF Barford St John; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Hinton; RAF Manby; RAF Spilsby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Stearman; Stirling; training; V-2; V-weapon; Victoria Cross; Wellington
Rowland Kethro’s Royal Canadian Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book.
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 189 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Blenheim; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington
Leonard William Fairbanks' Observer' and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book
Tags: 20 OTU; 223 Squadron; 25 OTU; 408 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Dominie; Halifax; Hampden; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Finningley; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Oulton; RAF Stormy Down; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator
Navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book for Albert Frederick Nye
Tags: 1661 HCU; 207 Squadron; 29 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington