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- Tags: RAF Hixon
Peter Lamprey
A Biography of Maurice Stimpson
Tags: 156 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Seighford; RAF Warboys; RAF Windrush; training
RAF Hixon
Tags: crewing up; RAF Hixon; training; Wellington
Jeff Downing and Crew
Included is an envelope with the names of the crew…
30 Operational Training Unit Hixon and 10 Air Gunnery School Walney Island
Photo 2 is a group of 65 airmen arranged in five rows, captioned '10 AGS Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness 3-12-44
Photos 3 and 4 are of six airmen in…
RAF Ludford Magna
Photograp of five individuals talking to a seated officer studying paperwork on his desk, caption 'Rum coffee & a fag while de-briefing'.…
Letter to David Donaldson
Tags: RAF Hixon
Ernest Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bircotes; RAF Blyton; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Finningley; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wickenby; training; Wellington
Liz Humphrey's service history
Interview with Bernie Harris. Two
Tags: 515 Squadron; 622 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); entertainment; faith; Flying Training School; Gee; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Holocaust; home front; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hixon; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window
Stan Shaw's Memoir notes
The Air Training Corps: A Wartime Experience
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; final resting place; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Magister; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator