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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-11-16"
Albert Reeks’ Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Trained at No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School, 12 Operational Training Unit.…
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 OTU; 205 Group; 216 Group; 216 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Gneisenau; Hudson; Operational Training Unit; propaganda; RAF Agartala; RAF Benson; RAF Cairo West; RAF El Adem; RAF El Khanka; RAF Heliopolis; RAF Kemble; RAF Khartoum; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Newton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pitreavie; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watchfield; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; searchlight; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
F Sowerby’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bardney; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Manby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RCAF Mount Hope; RCAF Picton; Stirling; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Robert Wilfred Hawkes' training photographs
#1. Four men seated at a table in a Nissen hut. Bedding, washing and other paraphernalia of living can be seen. It is captioned: 'STURGATE '45'
#2. Six airmen in uniform, seated on bicycles with their arms around…
Letter from Reginald Weeden to his mother
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from Air Ministry casualty branch
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from 97 Squadron adjutant
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bourn
Joseph Wilson's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; 624 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Me 109; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Blida; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Tempsford; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington