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- Tags: ditching
DFC for Seaford airmen
Two newspaper articles about Chan Chandler's ditching
#2 is a more detailed account of the successful ditching
Chan Chandler's DFC
#1 a newspaper cutting referring to Chan's DFC.
#2 a postagram from Commanding Officer of 617 offering congratulations.
Confidential Recommendations for Honours and Awards
Letter to Chan Chandler's mother from 49 Squadron
Tags: 49 Squadron; aircrew; ditching
Letter to Chan Chandler's mother from RAF Records
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
DFC for Seaford airman
Goldfish Club badge
Tags: aircrew; ditching; Goldfish Club
Award for Seaford Airman
Four letters relating to Chan Chandler missing
#1 A letter stating that Chan is missing.
#2 A letter to Chan's mother stating that Chan has been found.
#3 A letter from Chan to his mother after he reached hospital in Great Yarmouth.
#4 A second letter from Chan to his mother,…
Letter from Chan Chandler to his mother
Tags: air sea rescue; aircrew; ditching; RAF Scampton
Letter to Chan Chandler's mother
Newspaper cutting - Planes snatched doomed airmen from the sea
Letter from Jack Dwyer to his wife
Letter from Jack Dwyer to his wife
Tags: aircrew; ditching; entertainment; RAF Methwold
Und mit uns fliegt der Tod
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; ditching; pilot; propaganda
Interview with Alan "Jock" Richardson. Two
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; ditching
Letter to John Leigh's wife from RAF Foulsham
Letter to John Leigh's wife from Air Ministry
German Air Sea Rescue Service
It is further…
Tags: 139 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Blenheim; ditching
If Love were all...the story of a Second World War bomber crew
Tags: 12 Squadron; 15 OTU; 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ditching; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; love and romance; lynching; Me 110; memorial; mess; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Binbrook; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Seighford; RAF Shellingford; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Watchfield; RAF Wickenby; RCAF Calgary; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Conversation with Lucian Ercolani
Tags: 214 Squadron; 355 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; Flying Training School; Lysander; pilot; RAF Newmarket; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Watchfield; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington