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- Tags: RAF Halton
Don Briggs, a brief description of wartime service
Tags: 156 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; Master Bomber; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF St Athan; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Wittering; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Three articles about Eileen Pickering and her wartime experinces
Half a Life, Half Remembered
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 2 Group; 3 Group; 311 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 7 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harrow; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; incendiary device; Lancaster; love and romance; Magister; Manchester; Me 109; Me 110; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; observer; Operational Training Unit; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; radar; RAF Benson; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Catterick; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Debden; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Grantham; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Honington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manston; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF Sealand; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; RAF Warmwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mieczyslaw Maryszczak
Norman Jackson's Service Record
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Bill Parry's Service Record
Albert Thomas Smith's service record
Loose on the wind
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 4 Group; 578 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control tower; crash; crewing up; Defiant; faith; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; In the event of my death letter; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; Manchester; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); medical officer; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; observer; operations room; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Service record from August 1942 until November 1946 November
Tags: 1661 HCU; 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; fitter airframe; forced landing; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mechanics airframe; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; recruitment; Stirling; training
Interview with Bob Leedham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 86 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Halton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF St Athan; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wratting Common; Scharnhorst; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Donald Raymond Harris
Tags: 625 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Halton; RAF Scampton; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Raymond Moore
Tags: 408 Squadron; 426 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; faith; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Brackla; RAF Cosford; RAF East Moor; RAF Halton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF St Athan; recruitment; searchlight; sport; training
Letter to David Donaldson from J F Mazdon
Tags: RAF Halton
Jack's life and service up to 1942
Interview with Colin Hynd
Letter to Ronnie Abbott from Ham
Tags: aircrew; mess; RAF Halton; RAF Swinderby
Jim Taylor's RAF Memoirs 1932-1939
H Jack Lazenby DFC
Tags: 1654 HCU; 20 OTU; 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); briefing; Catalina; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; flight engineer; flight mechanic; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 110; Me 262; mechanics engine; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Benson; RAF Bourn; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Colerne; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Elvington; RAF Fairford; RAF Halton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melton Mowbray; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Pershore; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Swinderby; RAF Talbenny; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Valley; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wing; recruitment; Resistance; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Jack's postings
Margaret Dixon's account of her early life and service in the Women's' Auxiliary Air Force
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; entertainment; evacuation; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF Hednesford; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Metheringham; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Jim Wildes
Tags: 10 OTU; 206 Squadron; 23 OTU; 31 Squadron; B-17; B-24; C-47; ground personnel; Hampden; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cardington; RAF Halton; RAF Pershore; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Swinderby; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Charles Bland
Tags: Beaufighter; C-47; fitter airframe; fitter engine; ground crew; ground personnel; Meteor; military discipline; military service conditions; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Coningsby; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Waddington; RAF Worksop; service vehicle; Spitfire; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Interview with Peter Miller
Initially posted to 527 Squadron, which was …
Reg Miles Audio Memoir
Interview with Harold Kirby. One
Tags: 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; crash; crewing up; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mechanics airframe; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; York