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MAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]-230427-04.pdf
This is a handwritten record of the operations of 9 Squadron from 22nd November 1944 to 9th June 1945. For each operation it includes many details of the target, routes, bomb load, a description of results, and if any did not return. Inserted is the…

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SHarriganD[Ser#-DoB]v340002.mp3
John Langston joined the RAF straight from school and completed his initial training at the Air Squadron in Oxford. Following this, in 1942 he was sent for Navigator training in Canada, after which he completed further training in England with 5…

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SUprichardWG[Ser#-DoB]v20055.jpg
A reconnaissance photograph of the southern end of the docks at Kiel. Several ships are visible in docks or tied to jetties. Arrowed and annotated are the ships Gneisenau, Hipper, Lutzow and Scharnhorst. Hipper and Gneisenau are surrounded by box…

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ANicholsonD151002-02.mp3
The recording starts with the sound of Merlin engines. Don Nicholson lost his first crew when he was grounded on medical grounds and they were killed in action. He became the spare flight engineer on the squadron. He flew with different pilots until…

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ANicholsonD151002-01.mp3
Don was a flight engineer with No 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron in 1944-45 at RAF Dunholme Lodge and later at RAF Spilsby, and completed 31 operations, which he lists. He recounts how, having arrived for the briefing for his first operation, he was grounded…

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MAdamsHG424504-170215-19.pdf
Describes an attack, by 236 Lancaster, of 5 Group on port facilities and two aircraft to attack two pocket battleships anchored off the port. Gives a detailed description of the attack on ship, which was hit with three of their 10 bombs.

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MAdamsHG424504-170215-12.pdf
List of 29 operations as navigator on Lancaster of 467 Squadron between 10 September 1944 and 16 January 1945, including comments on each sortie; bomb load; flight times; fighters seen; weather; anti-aircraft fire; aircraft shot down.

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MAdamsHG424504-170215-11.pdf
Describes operations by Bomber Command and USAAF aircraft to Hamburg from 24 to 28 July 1943, recalling it was the first firestorm and the use of Window. Writes that the next firestorm was Darmstadt on September 11 1944, and recalls subsequent…

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MAdamsHG424504-170215-01.pdf
Extracts from publications giving details of all operations by 467 and 463 Squadrons from 10 September 1944 to 25 April 1945. Details include number of aircraft, target, bombloads and losses. Interspersed are details of operations carried out by…

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PJonesWC18020138.jpg
A newspaper cutting telling of the sinking of the Admiral Scheer by Lancasters.

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Five Group Newsletter, number 29, December 1944. Includes a foreword by the Air Officer Commanding, and articles on tactics, operations, gardening, signals, navigation, this month's bouquets, radar navigation, air bombing, engineering, training,…

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Five Group Newsletter, number 14, September 1943. Includes a foreword by the Air Officer Commanding, an article on the Rolls Royce Merlin and features about training, signals, gunnery, accidents, bombing, decorations, photography, engineering,…

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PPopeKMJ18010060.jpg
A handwritten note giving brief details of the operation and two relevant newspaper cuttings titled 'R.A.F Attack Lutzow in Harbour' and 'R.A.F. raiders'.

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LColeC1605385v1.pdf
Navigator’s, air bomber’s, air gunner’s and flight engineer’s flying log book for Warrant Officer Colin Cole from 5 August 1943 to 23 September 1946. Detailing training schedule and operations flown. Served at RAF Yatesbury, RAF Mona, RAF Barrow in…

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