Browse Items (11 total)
- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-12-08"
Harrison Sproates’ Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 13 OTU; 178 Squadron; 244 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Blenheim; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Hudson; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF El Adem; RAF Pembrey; RAF Shandur; RAF Sharjah; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
John and Joyce Madge
The second photograph is of Joyce, John and an elderly woman,…
Ron Riding's Royal Canadian Air Force observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 242 Squadron; 52 Squadron; Air Observers School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; bale out; Battle; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Cook’s tour; evading; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Lancaster; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blida; RAF Dishforth; RAF Lindholme; RAF Northolt; RAF Oakington; RCAF Caron; RCAF Rivers; Second Tactical Air Force; shot down; Stirling; submarine; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Alexander Francis Dowding’s flight engineer’s flying log book
Tags: 1664 HCU; 424 Squadron; 428 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; missing in action; RAF Leeming; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Skipton on Swale; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training
Operations
Below left - descriptions of the four operations giving numbers and types of aircraft used,…
Letter to Wally Layne's wife from 97 Squadron adjutant
Tags: 97 Squadron; prisoner of war; RAF Bourn; Red Cross
Two Letters to Mrs Doreen Ellis
The second asks Doreen to verify her date of birth.
Tags: aircrew; RAF Lakenheath
Extract from Bernard Clark's diary
Tags: 4,000 lb Cookie bomb; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; flight engineer; incendiary device; killed in action; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Skellingthorpe; wireless operator
Letter to Hedley Madgett's father about his son's bicycle
Tags: missing in action; RAF Syerston