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- Tags: 78 Squadron
George Medal citation for Warrant Officer Thomas Breech Miller RCAF
Gordon Mercier's navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 171 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Fw 190; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Marston Moor; RAF North Creake; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Whitley
Group of air and ground crew
Group of air and ground crew on a tractor
Halifax airborne
Tags: 78 Squadron; Halifax
Halifax airborne
Tags: 78 Squadron; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2
Halifax airborne
Tags: 78 Squadron; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2
Halifax airborne
Tags: 78 Squadron; Halifax
Halifax airborne
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Tags: 78 Squadron; Halifax
Halifax on dispersal
Tags: 78 Squadron; dispersal; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; RAF Breighton
Halifax on dispersal
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Tags: 78 Squadron; dispersal; Halifax
Halifax Popeye's Purge
Tags: 78 Squadron; bombing; Halifax; nose art
Halifax Popeye's Purge landing by runway caravan
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Halifax taking off
Tags: 78 Squadron; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; RAF Breighton
Halifax taking off
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Tags: 78 Squadron; Halifax; hangar
Harry Binns
Tags: 78 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; navigator
Henry Pollock’s navigator’s, air bombers and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1663 HCU; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); C-47; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Martinet; Meteor; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Andreas; RAF Breighton; RAF Feltwell; RAF Rufforth; RAF Stanton Harcourt; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Whitley
Interview with Gordon Mercier
Tags: 100 Group; 14 OTU; 171 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; civil defence; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; Halifax; Home Guard; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dunsfold; RAF North Creake; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; RAF Stormy Down; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; Whitley
Interview with Harold Yeoman
Tags: 12 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; debriefing; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; Lancaster; love and romance; medical officer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; recruitment; sport; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Harry Braithwaite
Interview with Henry Pollock
Tags: 78 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Rufforth; training; Whitley
Interview with John Louis Goldby
Tags: 640 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Hampden; Lancaster; mid-air collision; observer; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley