Browse Items (9 total)
- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-07-23"
Pathways in the Sky
Tags: 207 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); H2S; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; propaganda; RAF Bourn; RAF Langar; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Torquay; searchlight; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; submarine; target indicator; training; Window; wireless operator
Letter from John Slater recording his wartime experiences, post war thoughts.
Tags: 102 Squadron; 24 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Halifax; killed in action; lynching; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Morpeth; RAF Pocklington; searchlight; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; training; Victory in Europe Day (8 May 1945); Whitley; Window
Sergeant H. Brewer’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Trained in Canada at No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School, No. 3 Air…
Tags: 14 OTU; 1660 HCU; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bardney; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Manby; RAF Saltby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigtown; RCAF Lethbridge; RCAF Regina; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington
Birthday telegram to LAC Joliffe
Tags: ground personnel
Eric Scott's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Letter from Ron Witty to his mother, father and siblings
Tags: bombing
Colin Wallace's Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot's flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 19 OTU; 467 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Flying Training School; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Me 109; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Barford St John; RAF Bottesford; RAF Kinloss; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window
Lists of crews on operations from July to December 1943
Letter to Kathlyn and Uncle Gerard
Tags: aircrew; entertainment