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- Tags: Manchester
E B Chandler’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 49 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; Boston; C-47; Defiant; Dominie; Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Coningsby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Patrick Barry’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 19 OTU; 467 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bottesford; RAF Kinloss; RAF Metheringham; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Whitley
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
Letter from John Hopgood to his mother
Tags: Hampden; Manchester; RAF Finningley; RAF Swinderby; training
Manchester
Tags: Manchester; RAF Boscombe Down
Letter from Jack Dwyer to his wife
Tags: aircrew; Lancaster; Manchester
Trevor Blewitt’s RAF service record
Tags: 106 Squadron; 209 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Blenheim; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Manchester; Mosquito; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halton; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Strubby; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; sport; training
Denys Street's pilots flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 207 Squadron; 3 BFTS; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; Cornell; Flying Training School; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Grantham; RAF Langar; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington
Lancaster prototype
Tags: Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; Spitfire
Flight Lieutenant Jamie Barr DFC
Tags: 12 OTU; 1661 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; propaganda; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dumfries; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wyton; Tiger force; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
My Crew
Tags: 1661 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; propaganda; RAF Colerne; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Order of service
Conversation with Peter Langdon
Lionel Horner’s Royal Air Force Air Navigator’s Flying Log Book
Navigation training at the Pan American Airways Navigation Section, Miami and then Advanced Flying Unit in England. Posted to 29…
Tags: 1661 HCU; 29 OTU; 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; military discipline; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Sturgate; training; Wellington
The Bombing of Braunschweig
Avro Lancaster Mk 1
Tags: 50 Squadron; Anson; B-17; B-24; bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; Manchester; Victoria Cross; York
Jim Hardy’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book One
Posted to No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School, 14 Operational Training Unit. Operational posting…
Tags: 14 OTU; 24 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Hampden; Lysander; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Long Marston; RAF Scampton; RAF West Freugh; take-off crash; training; Walrus; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Conversations with Norman Didwell
Tags: 214 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 3 Group; 40 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Beaufighter; C-47; escaping; fitter airframe; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; killed in action; Manchester; Me 110; mechanics airframe; Mosquito; petrol bowser; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF Waterbeach; service vehicle; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; tractor; Wellington
Conversation with Eric Clarke
Tags: 16 OTU; 23 OTU; 24 OTU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Pershore; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; searchlight; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Six airmen
Tags: aircrew; Manchester; pilot
Six airmen
Tags: aircrew; Manchester
Damage to tail of a Manchester
Tags: Manchester; RAF Waddington
Damage to aircraft
Tags: 207 Squadron; Manchester
Avro 679 Manchester Mk.I
Tags: 207 Squadron; Manchester
Aircrew and ground crew in front of a Manchester.
Tags: aircrew; animal; ground crew; ground personnel; Manchester; nose art