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- Tags: 9 Squadron
Denis Clyde-Smith certificate for award of Distinguished Service Order
Interview with Dave Knight
A short history of 640 Squadron
There is also a…
Tags: 4 Group; 617 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bouncing bomb; debriefing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; love and romance; memorial; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; operations room; pilot; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; wireless operator
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 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 Sam Thompson
He was…
It happened one night
Sympathy letter from E Thomas to Mabel Pexman
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No…
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; prisoner of war
Interview with Pat and Frank Harris
Interview with Maurice Stoneman
Tags: 57 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; ditching; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mess; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; training
Interview with Jack Linaker
Tags: 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crash; faith; Lancaster; Mosquito; RAF Bardney; training
Interview with Andrew Carswell
Interview with Geoff Golledge
Biography of Kenneth Gill by son Derek
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Grand Slam; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 262; memorial; navigator; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Clifford Watson. One
Interview with Ken Johnson. Two
Interview with Alexander Charles Gilbert
Upon his call up,…
Tags: 149 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bardney; RAF Calshot; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halton; RAF Kirkham; RAF Methwold; RAF Morton Hall; RAF Scampton; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Winthorpe
Interview with Bill Lucas. Two
Tags: 139 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 19 OTU; 20 OTU; 9 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Kinloss; RAF Torquay; RAF Upwood; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Audrey Teasdale
Audrey was 23 when the war started and was conscripted on 15 December 1942 electing to join the Women's Auxiliary Air…
Tags: 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; animal; bombing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; prisoner of war; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morecambe; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waddington; sport; Stirling; strafing; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with John Foster Thorp
Tags: 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; crewing up; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington
Letter to Mrs K Turner from Air Ministry Records Office
Tags: 9 Squadron; killed in action; RAF Ruislip
Interview with Bob Lasham
Tags: 5 BFTS; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; African heritage; aircrew; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Cranfield; recruitment; searchlight; Stearman; training
Interview with Harry Irons. One
Tags: 158 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Halifax; In the event of my death letter; Ju 88; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Nissen hut; radar; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Driffield; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lissett; RAF Manby; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; Spitfire; training