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Paul Edward Thompson DFC RAF
Service history including service notes. Joining up, initial and basic training followed flying training as pilot in UK then by training as a navigator in the United States and Canada. Lists his first crew. List 15 operations on 50 Squadron with…
Navigator at work
An airmen wearing leather jacket flying helmet and oxygen mask working at navigator's station in a bomber.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Navigator's certificate
Certifies that Flying Officer Thompson RAFR successfully qualified as an air navigator second class.
Two photographs of Paul Thompson
Top left - colour photograph head and shoulders portrait of an airman wearing tunic with navigator brevet and medal ribbon (DFC) . Captioned 'Paul Edward Thompson DFC RAF.
Bottom right - head and shoulder portrait of an airman wearing tunic and side…
Bottom right - head and shoulder portrait of an airman wearing tunic and side…
Paul Thompson RAF Personnel document as an airman
Gives personal details, postings, musterings and promotions.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Paul Thompson crew
Seven aircrew wearing tunics with brevet, three in front and four behind. Two versions of the same image. The first has signatures on reverse. The second is mounted on paper with caption 'Paul's regular crew 1944/45 (1 person missing). Paul on left…
Letter from Paul Thompson to his parents.
Talks of being posted from RAF Wing to RAF Fulbeck and about his crew. Captioned 'Paul's last correspondence to his parents. He died in RAF action over Germany 3 days later RIP'. Includes typewritten transcript.
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Seven aircrew
Seven airman, three sitting in front, all wearing battledress with brevet. Captioned '(Back row) Sgt Brooks F/E, Sgt Butler M/G, F/O Smith NAV, Sgt Woodcherry WOP.
(Front row) P/O Wood R/G, F/O Kroeker, P/O Modeland A/B'.
(Front row) P/O Wood R/G, F/O Kroeker, P/O Modeland A/B'.
Group of five airmen
Group of five airmen standing in the snow. Two are wearing officers' caps and three are in greatcoats. Two have sergeant chevrons. On reverse, handwritten note - 'Myself, Jack, Jack (Nav), Ray and Ernie.
Flying Officer Ling's crew
Picture of seven-man bomber crew. On reverse, names of crew.
Back row left to right:
Flight Sergeant Tom Fletcher, Bomb Aimer; Flying Officer Gordon Ling, Pilot; Sergeant Harry Laws, Navigator
Front row left to right:
Sergeant Len Moss, Flight…
Back row left to right:
Flight Sergeant Tom Fletcher, Bomb Aimer; Flying Officer Gordon Ling, Pilot; Sergeant Harry Laws, Navigator
Front row left to right:
Sergeant Len Moss, Flight…
James Darroch Crawford's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Observer's and air gunner's flying log book for James Darroch Crawford from 11 September 1943 to 1 June 1946. Details his training, operational duties and post conflict service. James served with 139 (Jamacia) and 627 Squadrons and flew 48 night time…
Five servicemen with beer glasses
Four airmen, two pilots and two navigators and a man in naval uniform standing in line in a garden holding drink glasses.
Submitted with caption 'at the pub 1'.
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
Submitted with caption 'at the pub 1'.
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
Jared Lewis' observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Observer and air gunner's flying log book for Jared Lewis from 14 November 1942 to 22 January 1946. Details his training, operational duties and period as an instructor. Jared served in North Africa and Europe at RAF Dalcross (No 2 Air Gunnery…
Edwin Jury's wartime log for British prisoners
Gives personal details and at Stalag Luft 6. Note about Dennis Watkins air gunner killed and buried in Berlin war cemetery. Gives addresses of fellow prisoners not all readable names but includes D B W Brewell (air gunner), P Hewdick, D A , H J…
Prisoner of war recollections of Ronald Mogg
Ronald was as navigator in a Wellington shot down over Osnabruck 30 October 1940. He was interrogated and then detained in Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft I (Barth), Stalag Luft 3 (Sagan), Stalag Luft 6 (Heydekrug), Stalag XX-A (Thorun) and the…
The Bridge
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Discusses Spitfires flying around the bridge Then talks about a visiting German officer and then advancing British forces, Swedish red cross food distribution to prisoners, recapturing escaped prisoners, jumpy mood of Germans, woken early to move to…
Interview with Geoffrey Kenneth Wilson
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Geoffrey's story at the end of the Long March.
Sergeant Edward Wilkinson and crew
Photograph of P for Peter crew, comprising Sergeant E Wilkinson (top row second from right) - Wireless Operator, Flight Sergeant F N McDonough - Rear Gunner, Sergeant H R Lawson - Bomb Aimer, Sergeant C Dix - Flight Engineer, Flying Officer W R…
Wellington navigator
Navigator at station working with chart.
A pigeon, let out of its basket is also looking at the map.
Above is a list of cartoon captions. ‘You be the enemy a/c & I’ll show you how I went down on it!’ / ‘Don’t look now but I think we’re being…
A pigeon, let out of its basket is also looking at the map.
Above is a list of cartoon captions. ‘You be the enemy a/c & I’ll show you how I went down on it!’ / ‘Don’t look now but I think we’re being…
Pilot and navigator
A pilot at controls on the right looking right and a navigator with map looking out to the left.
Bail out
A navigator working at his station with upper fuselage and turret above. To the left a hatch with just feet of a baling out airman with text 'Whoosh' above. Speech bubble to right 'Bail out'.
Account of the crash of Stirling W7580
The eyewitness account describes the shooting down of the bomber aircraft by a night fighter of Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 at Venlo.
The witness describes the stricken bomber as a "huge firebal [sic]". It goes on to describe the precise location of the…
The witness describes the stricken bomber as a "huge firebal [sic]". It goes on to describe the precise location of the…
William Thew Mayson’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book One
William Mayson’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book One from 20th October 1941 until 30th September 1947. During this time trained as an observer/navigator, air gunner, second pilot and air bomber. Trained at No. 9 Air Observers School, 23…
William Thew Mayson’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bombers, Air Gunners, Flight Engineers. Log Book Two
William Mayson’s Flying Log Book from 16th October 1947 until 16th January 1952. During this time he flew as a navigator, firstly with 109 Squadron and then 57 Squadron from October 1948. In December 1949 posted to HQ Bomber Command.
Served at RAF…
Served at RAF…
The log book entry
Description from a South African log book covering the period September 1943 to October 1944. The entry refers to an operation in which Lancaster PA984 was lost and provides details of the flight, target and crew. The author explains that, following…