Brown, Jeff

Title

Brown, Jeff

Jeffrey Brown

J Brown

Description

35 items. One oral history interview with Flying Officer Jeff Brown (b. 1925, 2205595, Royal Air Force), his log book, service material and photographs including 16 pictures of B-29s. He flew operations as a Flight Sergeant air gunner with 576 Squadron from RAF Fiskerton towards the end of the war and took part in Operation Manna.

The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Jeff Brown and catalogued by Peter Adams.

Date

2017-01-18

2017-01-31

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Brown, J-3

Collection Items

Jeff Brown's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers

Flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers for Jeff Brown, air gunner, covering the period from 18 August 1944 to 31 December 1951. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and post war flying. He was stationed…

B-29 in flight

Air-to-air view of B-29 WF491 in flight, taken on the same level from behind the port wing.

B-29 in flight

Air-to-air view of B-29 in flight, taken from above, of the rear starboard quarter. On the ground there are fields, roads and scattered buildings. Part of a built up community is visible in the bottom left. The top third of the photograph is a taken…

Jeff Brown

Full length portrait of Jeff Brown in Flying Officers dress uniform, with black armband, showing medal ribbon strip, and air gunner's half brevet. He is wearing his cap.

255 airmen and a Lancaster

255 airmen posed in five ranks in front of a Lancaster.

Jeff Brown

Half length portrait of Jeff Brown in uniform with trainee flash in his cap, stood in a green area.

Seven aircrew beneath a Lancaster

Seven aircrew, including Jeff Brown (second left), standing beneath a Lancaster on dispersal. One of them is smoking, and carrying a flying helmet. Two of them have flying boots. Five are sergeants. Two are pilots. The aircraft has H2 on the forward…

Propaganda leaflet dropped prior to Operation Manna

Propaganda leaflet issued by Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces to the people of occupied Holland, advising and instructing them on how to deal with relief food drops. Original in Dutch and English translation.

Anson in flight

Air-to-air view of Anson 1 MG182 in flight. It is in camouflage, and has number '4' on the fuselage and nose.

Cutting a tie

One airman in a flying suit is having his tie cut off by two others, one holding the tie, the other, wearing a boiler suit, wielding the scissors, whilst two others look on. Everybody except the man with the scissors is laughing, he is concentrating…

Six airmen studying a rotary engine cut-away

Five airman are watching another handling a floor-mounted, cut-away section of a rotary engine in an interior setting. Two of the airmen have 'Canada' shoulder flashes.

Entrance to No.3 F.T.S. Claresholm

Gatehouse and entrance plaque of No. 3 Flying Training School Claresholm. The plaque is mounted on a decorative woodpile, and the station title is written on a decorative broken board. In the middle distance is a manned gatehouse, with traffic light.…

B-29, WF491, in flight

Air-to-air view of B-29, serial number WF491, in flight.

53 trainee airmen, and two instructors

55 airmen posed in 5 ranks in front of a large corrugated iron building. 53 of them have white belts, and trainee flashes on their caps, The remaining two are central on the front rank. One of them has sergeant's stripes and a medal ribbon, the other…