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84 Squadron RAF 1917-1997
Tags: 84 Squadron; Beaufighter; Blenheim; escaping; Mosquito; RAF Beaulieu; Victoria Cross
The Scorpions at war
#1 a He 111 left behind at Mosul.
#2 Christmas menu.
#3 an air to air photograph of a Blenheim flying through a sandstorm.
#4 a Blenheim having successfully force landed in the desert.
#5 two…
Tags: 84 Squadron; Blenheim; forced landing; He 111
84 Squadron - Crews and their order of flight from Middle East to Far East
George Milson's memoir
Tags: 13 OTU; 18 Squadron; 2 Group; 211 Squadron; 84 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; escaping; Gneisenau; Hampden; Harvard; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Magister; Me 109; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Bicester; RAF Bodney; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranfield; RAF Farnborough; RAF Ford; RAF Great Massingham; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Hinton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lydda; RAF Oulton; RAF Polebrook; RAF Portreath; RAF Skegness; RAF Upwood; RAF Watton; RAF West Raynham; Red Cross; Scharnhorst; sport; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Narrative of Personal Experiences of war in the Far East
Tags: 18 Squadron; 203 Squadron; 211 Squadron; 27 Squadron; 84 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; B-25; B-29; Blenheim; C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; escaping; evacuation; flight engineer; ground personnel; Hudson; Hurricane; killed in action; medical officer; Mosquito; navigator; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Great Massingham; Red Cross; Typhoon
History of 84 Squadron from 3 January 1942 - 7 March 1942
There is a second, different, history.
Peter Haynes' memoir
List of Operations
Letter from Idwal Davies to his mother
Tags: 620 Squadron; aircrew
Squadron Leader Lennox Lamb’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Initial training as a pilot at Nos. 3 and 2 Flying Training Schools. Posted to 99 Squadron in January 1932. Between January and August 1933…
Tags: 203 Squadron; 24 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 99 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Flying Training School; Harrow; Magister; Martinet; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Digby; RAF Grantham; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Hinaidi; RAF Honington; RAF Manston; RAF Shaibah; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wittering; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Albert Thomas Smith's service record
Flight Engineer Don Gray DFM
Tags: 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; briefing; C-47; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mess; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Lyneham; RAF Tangmere; sanitation; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
No 70 (BT) Sqdn Sgts Mess Xmas Dinner 1936
Tags: entertainment; mess
Iraq Images
#1 is the Taq Kasra, 20 miles south of Baghdad.
#2 is the Lion of Babylon statue.
#3 is an aerial view of a bridge over a river.
#4 is an aerial view of RAF Hinaidi, Baghdad.
Tags: aerial photograph; RAF Hinaidi
Middle Eastern Images
#1 is the statue of King Faisal I of Iraq on horseback in Baghdad
#2 is a mosque and minaret.
#3 is a cemetery with war graves.
#4 is a tall square tower.
#5 is the Mausoleum of Hadrat Sheikh Marouf al Karkhi with…
Tags: final resting place
John Henry Hanne - A Biography
Jack Hanne enlisted on his eighteenth birthday in 1931, he rose through the ranks to become a proficient pilot, serving overseas in Iraq and Karachi. By 1939, he was flying…
Tags: 107 Squadron; 110 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Hurricane; killed in action; love and romance; Me 110; memorial; missing in action; navigator; pilot; RAF Debden; RAF Halton; RAF Hullavington; RAF Wattisham; RAF Wittering; training; wireless operator / air gunner
A Reminiscence of the Flying Characteristics of Many Old Type Aircraft
Tags: aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Defiant; Dominie; Fw 190; ground crew; Halifax; Harvard; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Magister; Manchester; Me 109; Mosquito; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Calshot; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Pembrey; RAF Prestwick; RAF West Freugh; Spitfire; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); York
RAF Badges cigarette card collection
Tags: 104 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 18 Squadron; 20 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 23 Squadron; 25 Squadron; 27 Squadron; 28 Squadron; 31 Squadron RAF; 32 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 43 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 66 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; RAF Abingdon; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Calshot; RAF Catterick; RAF Duxford; RAF Farnborough; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Kenley; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF North Weald; RAF Northolt; RAF Odiham; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford