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- Tags: RAF Cottesmore
Relief Map of Lincolnshire's Bomber Airfields
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Tags: RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bottesford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Digby; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF East Retford; RAF Finningley; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Grantham; RAF Harlaxton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Langar; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Newton; RAF North Coates; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Peterborough; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Spilsby; RAF Strubby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Woolfox Lodge
RAF Officers record of service - Kenneth Saw
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Snaith
Conversion courses
Left - wedding photograph a full length image of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet and holding peaked…
History of 106 Squadron
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-weapon
John Nettleton VC
Tags: 185 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 97 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Fw 190; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Hampden; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stalag Luft 3; training; Victoria Cross
Draft history
Notes on Bomber Command
Robert Creamer and Colleague
On the reverse 'Took at RAF Cottesmore June 1945.'
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; RAF Cottesmore
Keith Thompson's time on 115 Squadron
Three colour postcards of Malta, two of Grand Harbour Valetta, one captioned Maltas stone buildings and one of a horse powered carriage.
A colour postcard of a military cemetery captioned 'Tobruk, Knight Bridge Cemetery near El…
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Aircraft histories of Tiger Moth aircraft flown by Denis Clyde-Smith
44 pilots and wireless wireless operator / air gunners
My private war with Hitler's Gremlins
Interview with Syd Grimes
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
The Air Ministry regrets
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 540 Squadron; 627 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; Anson; arts and crafts; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; Dominie; evacuation; firefighting; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Hurricane; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Benson; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Debden; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Glatton; RAF Ingham; RAF Kabrit; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Luqa; RAF Manby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Weald; RAF Northolt; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Syerston; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Freugh; RAF Westcott; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Yatesbury; Spitfire; Swordfish; Tirpitz; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Before I was in the RAF by Reg Payne
Tags: 14 OTU; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; heirloom; Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; lynching; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Waddington; RAF Wittering; sanitation; superstition; training; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Aviation Memory
Tags: 102 Squadron; 14 OTU; 17 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Kirkham; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF North Coates; RAF North Weald; RAF Padgate; RAF Pocklington; RAF Saltby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wittering; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Robert Wareing's memoir
Robert Wareing memoir
Rear view - Ralph Briars memoir
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 109; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Scarecrow; searchlight; service vehicle; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Peter Hattersley's Service Diary
Tags: 1 Group; 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; Battle; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; Stalag Luft 3; training
Philip Hopgood's Second World War Biography
Tags: 1651 HCU; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 1663 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; RAF Catterick; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Graveley; RAF Kirkham; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF Sealand; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Interview with Kenneth Cook
Tags: 1 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Botha; crewing up; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Coltishall; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with William Neilson
Interview with Sheila Wilmet
Tags: bomb dump; bombing; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; home front; meteorological officer; military living conditions; Nissen hut; perception of bombing war; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Langar; RAF Spilsby; shelter; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force