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- Tags: RAF Millom
The Lake District
Six views of the lakes, captioned 'The Lake District. Whilst stationed at No 2 (Observers) A.F.U. Millom, Cumberland, I visited the Lake District for a weekend. I spent one night at Coniston and the next day went on to…
Tags: RAF Millom
Peter Thomas’s Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other that pilot
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1653 HCU; 85 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
B Openshaw sight log book
Interview with Herbert James Wylde
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Defiant; Dominie; entertainment; fear; Gee; Lancaster; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Madley; RAF Millom; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Frederick Arthur Bowman
Interview with Edward Cayhill
Geoffrey Whittle's observers and air gunners flying log book. One
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 27 OTU; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Leeming; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Millom; RAF Paignton; RAF Upavon; RAF West Freugh; training; Walrus; Wellington; York
Roy Ward's informal flying log as a Meteorological Observer from RAF Millom and RAF Aldergrove
Photograph of three men sitting in shorts and vests on a stony…
Interview with Don Browning
Letter from Harold Gorton to his wife
Tags: aircrew; military discipline; RAF Cark; RAF Millom; training
Interview with Ernie Patterson. One
Tags: 635 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Catalina; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Dominie; fear; FIDO; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Downham Market; RAF Millom; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; superstition; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Dr Maurice Brook Interview
Tags: 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Reg Freeth's South African Air Force observers or air gunners log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 1661 HCU; 26 OTU; 29 OTU; 61 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Martinet; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Desborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Horwood; RAF Millom; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Westcott; RAF Wing; RAF Winthorpe; training; Wellington
Interview with Reg Freeth
Back in England
Avery, Lovell, Gorfunkle, Alexander,…
Tags: Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; RAF Millom; training
Interview with Peter Bellingham
Tags: 11 OTU; 138 Squadron; 17 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; FIDO; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Millom; RAF Silverstone; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Woodbridge; Special Operations Executive; training