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- Tags: RAF Yatesbury
"D" Squadron No.2 Air Crew Wing RAF Yatesbury
Tags: aircrew; RAF Yatesbury; training
19 Trainee Pilots
On the reverse 'Original. Official "Flight" photograph of trainee pilots at No 3 FTS…
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; pilot; RAF Yatesbury; training
Airman and parents
Tags: RAF Yatesbury
Airman and three young men
Tags: RAF Yatesbury
Alan Holman's Log Book extract
Tags: 192 Squadron; 21 OTU; Anson; Beaufighter; Blenheim; Boston; Dominie; Halifax; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Brackla; RAF Cardington; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Defford; RAF Evanton; RAF Foulsham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Prestwick; RAF Staverton; RAF Winfield; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington
Alan Holman’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 192 Squadron; 21 OTU; 54 OTU; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; Blenheim; Boston; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Lancaster; Lincoln; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Defford; RAF Evanton; RAF Foulsham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Staverton; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Alan Richardson’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 148 Squadron; 211 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 70 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Harrow; Hudson; Me 109; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Allahabad; RAF Bandoeng; RAF Ismailia; RAF Jurby; RAF Luqa; RAF Marham; RAF Nakuru; RAF Palembang; RAF Penrhos; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Albert Reeks’ Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Trained at No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School, 12 Operational Training Unit.…
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 OTU; 205 Group; 216 Group; 216 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Gneisenau; Hudson; Operational Training Unit; propaganda; RAF Agartala; RAF Benson; RAF Cairo West; RAF El Adem; RAF El Khanka; RAF Heliopolis; RAF Kemble; RAF Khartoum; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Newton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pitreavie; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watchfield; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; searchlight; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Andy Andrews’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; Dominie; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; RAF Upavon; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stalag 7A; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Arthur Atkinson’s observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 61 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Arthur John Tindall’s navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 84 OTU; 97 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Botha; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; master bomber; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Desborough; RAF Mona; RAF Silverstone; RAF Upwood; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Arthur Kenneth Wrigley's Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book
Tags: 14 OTU; 144 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Dominie; Hampden; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; propaganda; RAF Cottesmore; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; RAF Yatesbury; training; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Arthur Mace's diary 8th January 1942 to 15th March 1944
There is a second diary for 1943 only and its contents are identical to the first diary. A third diary covers 1944.
Year 1942
The diary describes tedium and excitement of training through 1942. He…
Tags: 214 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bombing; Botha; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; Halifax; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; medical officer; mess; mine laying; missing in action; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Driffield; RAF Evanton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lasham; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Yatesbury; searchlight; sport; take-off crash; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Arthur Woolf record of service
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Barford St John; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; training; wireless operator
Arthur Woolf’s flying log book for navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; 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); Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Barford St John; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Aubrey Read’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Defiant; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Metheringham; RAF Saltby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Aviation Memory
Tags: 102 Squadron; 14 OTU; 17 OTU; 4,000 lb Cookie bomb; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; Caterpillar Club; civil defence; crewing up; Darky call; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; master bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Kirkham; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF North Coates; RAF North Weald; RAF Padgate; RAF Pocklington; RAF Saltby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wittering; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
B Sqdn , 2 Air Crew Wing RAF Yatesbury
There is a stamp 'Photograph by Vivian of Hereford'.
Tags: aircrew; RAF Yatesbury; training
Bertie Foxlee’s flying log book for observer’s and air gunners
Tags: 14 OTU; 25 OTU; 27 OTU; 455 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 81 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Catalina; Dominie; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Blida; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Lichfield; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tilstock; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
C A Bramwell observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 20 OTU; 51 Squadron; 77 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Elvington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Page 1 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Item 2 - A head and shoulders photograph of Dennis Bradbury in trainee side cap.
Item 3 - Head and shoulders photographs of four trainees including Dennis…
Tags: RAF Yatesbury; training
Chan Chandler's biography
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet…
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
Charles Harry Brooks’ Royal Air Force Flying Log Book
Trained at No. 2 Electronic and Wireless School, No. 10 Air Observers School, 20…
Tags: 20 OTU; 9 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Dominie; forced landing; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; mess; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Dumfries; RAF Honington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Waddington; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Claim for Campaign Stars and/or Defence medal
Clifford Dayman flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 14 OTU; 1660 HCU; 216 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; C-47; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Almaza; RAF Bridlington; RAF Desborough; RAF Khormaksar; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Millom; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Westcott; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; York