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- Tags: 49 Squadron
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561197 Warrant Officer Charles Eade (Bill) Lutwyche
Tags: 114 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Leuchars; RAF Oulton; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Thornaby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wattisham; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington
Chan Chandler's biography
Tags: 115 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air sea rescue; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bismarck; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); briefing; C-47; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; forced landing; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; master bomber; Me 109; mess; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Andover; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Coningsby; RAF Croydon; RAF Earls Colne; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Honington; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Manston; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Middle Wallop; RAF Northolt; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Scharnhorst; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Tallboy; target indicator; target photograph; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Dulag Luft Card
Fighting the war sitting down
Tags: 156 Squadron; 2 Group; 49 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; Blenheim; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Hemswell; RAF Oakington; RAF Scampton; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Flying Officer Theodore Arthur Lumb and Pilot Officer Raymond Fletcher Lumb
Tags: 14 OTU; 49 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; final resting place; Hampden; killed in action; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Hendon; RAF Scampton; RAF White Waltham; Red Cross; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Notes on aircraft
Sergeant Reginald Frederick (Roly) Roberts
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 66 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; crash; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Harrow; killed in action; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upper Heyford; recruitment; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force