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- Tags: 640 Squadron
- Type is exactly "Text. Personal research"
Flying Officer Aubrey "Tommy" Coles DFC
Tags: 158 Squadron; 4 Group; 640 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Banff; RAF Bramcote; RAF Finningley; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marston Moor; RCAF Estevan; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
A short history of 640 Squadron (George Keeling)
Tags: 4 Group; 617 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bouncing bomb; debriefing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; love and romance; memorial; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; operations room; pilot; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; wireless operator
List of operations carried out by Flying Officer E. Edward Amerasekera 640 Squadron
Tags: 640 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; master bomber; pilot; RAF Middleton St George; V-2; V-weapon
Ceylonese in the RAF (1939-45)
Tags: 102 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 18 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 99 Squadron; aircrew; Asian heritage; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Hurricane; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Spitfire
640 Squadron
Tags: 158 Squadron; 4 Group; 466 Squadron; 640 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; tactical support for Normandy troops; V-1; V-weapon