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- Tags: Heavy Conversion Unit
Harry Hicks’ Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 11 OTU; 149 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1657 HCU; 32 OTU; Admiral Scheer; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Cornell; Flying Training School; Gee; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Babdown Farm; RAF Brough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Methwold; RAF Oakley; RAF Ossington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Watchfield; RAF Westcott; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Boundary Bay; RCAF Caron; RCAF Medicine Hat; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
William Thew Mayson’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book One
Tags: 109 Squadron; 11 OTU; 128 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 23 OTU; 7 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Auster; B-17; B-24; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Defiant; Dominie; forced landing; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; RAF Alconbury; RAF Oakington; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pershore; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Stirling; training; Wellington
Alexander Marshall's service record (One)
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 178 Squadron; 20 OTU; 23 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Burn; RAF Cardington; RAF Honington; RAF Kenley; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manston; RAF Snaith; RAF Upavon; RAF West Freugh; training
John Searle’s Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 28 OTU; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); C-47; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lindholme; RAF Scampton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Maurice James Blower’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 1661 HCU; 19 OTU; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); Flying Training School; forced landing; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Instructor; Lancaster; Manchester; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby; RAF Forres; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Eval; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Five year diary
Tags: 15 OTU; 1658 HCU; 19 OTU; 23 OTU; 24 OTU; 7 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; Beaufighter; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; faith; grief; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Harwell; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Madley; RAF Pershore; RAF Riccall; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); sport; training; Whitley
A Basic Air Navigation Course in 1943
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Bomber Command Career 1942-49
A second copy includes some photographs.
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; Cornell; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; entertainment; FIDO; Flying Training School; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cardington; RAF Carlisle; RAF Castel Benito; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dumfries; RAF Harrogate; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lissett; RAF Metheringham; RAF Shallufa; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Brandon; RCAF Caron; RCAF Estevan; RCAF Moncton; sport; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
My First Operation
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; briefing; coping mechanism; Cornell; fear; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; master bomber; military ethos; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Lissett; RAF Metheringham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RCAF Estevan; RCAF Moncton; Spitfire; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Crewing Up - June 44 - November 45
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; crewing up; flight engineer; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Harry George Mason Robinson's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 15 OTU; 156 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 23 OTU; 24 OTU; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); crash; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; master bomber; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Harwell; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Madley; RAF Pershore; RAF Riccall; RAF Upwood; RCAF Mossbank; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Joseph Bradburn's service
Joseph Bradburn service history
Joseph Bradburn' service record
Ken Hemmings Autobiography
Tags: 100 Group; 1663 HCU; 192 Squadron; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; briefing; C-47; Catalina; Cook’s tour; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Harvard; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Me 163; Me 262; Me 410; medical officer; mess; mid-air collision; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; radar; RAF Benson; RAF Burnaston; RAF Calveley; RAF Foulsham; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Locking; RAF Melksham; RAF Paignton; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF Torquay; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Victory in Europe Day (8 May 1945); Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Albert Edward Brown’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 100 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 18 OTU; 214 Squadron; 81 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-17; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Defiant; Fw 190; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Martinet; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; P-40; RAF Grimsby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Oulton; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tilstock; RAF Worksop; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington; Whitley; Window
Ryedale Family History Group biographies
It contains biographies of the following:
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 120 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 21 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 24 Squadron; 248 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 405 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 517 Squadron; 544 Squadron; 59 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 82 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; final resting place; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Martinet; memorial; mid-air collision; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bodney; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Graveley; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Watton; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wombleton; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Richard Hazlehurst and Ruth Hodding biographies
Ruth Laverton as WAAF as a spark plug tester. Also…
Transcript of Lancaster crew from RCAF 429 (RCAF) Squadron from recording made in 1984
Tags: 1666 HCU; 429 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bomb aimer; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF East Moor; RAF Leeming; RAF Manston; RAF Wombleton; training; wireless operator
Victor Garland’s RAF Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bombers, Air Gunners, Flight Engineers.
Operational memoir by A L Joslin
Tags: 100 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); fear; flight engineer; gremlin; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; master bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); P-47; P-51; Pathfinders; RAF Binbrook; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Wratting Common; Schräge Musik; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window
Squadron postings
Sheet one covers December 1942
Sheet two covers…
Interview with W Pilling
Leslie Silver's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
S E L Stephens’ Flying Log Book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1660 HCU; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bardney; RAF Bobbington; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manby; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
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