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- Tags: RAF Oulton
- Type is exactly "Text. Memoir"
Biographical letter from John Maunsell
Tags: 1654 HCU; 223 Squadron; 29 OTU; 57 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; crewing up; debriefing; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Oulton; RAF Swinderby; Resistance; Schräge Musik; shot down; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
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
Bill Foskett Biography - Chapter Three
Tags: 100 Group; 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Honington; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Oulton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Shipdham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodbridge; Stearman; Stirling; superstition; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
One WAAF's war (Kathleen Reid)
Tags: 100 Squadron; 214 Squadron; B-17; B-24; entertainment; ground personnel; Lancaster; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Bawtry; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Cranwell; RAF Grimsby; RAF Innsworth; RAF Oulton; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Swannington; sanitation; Stirling; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Hastie DFC: The Life and Times of a Wartime Pilot
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 157 Squadron; 2 Group; 214 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Bismarck; Botha; C-47; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evacuation; Flying Training School; Gee; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; radar; RAF Banff; RAF Catfoss; RAF Catterick; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Farnborough; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leuchars; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF North Coates; RAF Oulton; RAF Padgate; RAF Prestwick; RAF Riccall; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Thornaby; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Windrush; RAF Woodbridge; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Notes on 21 Squadron and Dennis Denton's crew
Tags: 21 Squadron; aircrew; B-25; Blenheim; crash; Fw 190; Mosquito; RAF Bodney; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Methwold; RAF Oulton; shot down; Ventura