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- Tags: 576 Squadron
Flying Officer Francis Hosier's Record of Service
Aircraft of Bomber Command completing more than 100 operations
Second page lists a further 22 Lancasters by registration number only.
Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
No 166 Squadron history
Page one begins with the reformation of the squadron in 1936 and gives details of the aircraft operated, the stations flown from and the roles the squadron played in training and operations.…
Tags: 10 OTU; 103 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kirmington; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Scampton; take-off crash; training; Wellington; Whitley
Westkapelle, October 3, 1944
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 105 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Binbrook; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Grimsby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Kirmington; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wickenby; RAF Witchford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire
576 Squadron Order of Battle No.290
576 Squadron
Tags: 576 Squadron; Lancaster
Flight Lieutenant Sedgewick and three crew members
Tags: 576 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Fiskerton
Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Flight Lieutenant Sedgewick and three crew members
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: 576 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Fiskerton
Three airmen and mascot
Additional information about this item has been…
Tags: 576 Squadron; aircrew; navigator; superstition
Flight Lieutenant Sedgewick and three crew members
Tags: 576 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Fiskerton
Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Flight Lieutenant Strachan's crew
Next of kin Lancaster JB670 'Q' - 16 December 1943
Reg Jaques biography
12 airmen waving off a Lancaster
Newspaper articles featuring 103 Squadron
RAF Elsham Wolds Reunion and Dedication of the Memorial
Tags: 103 Squadron; 576 Squadron; memorial; RAF Elsham Wolds
Second reunion at RAF Elsham Wolds
There is a ticket for the reunion dinner.
Photograph2 shows the propeller and the associated garden. There are flowers in the shape of RAF wings and 'E W' with…
Tags: 103 Squadron; 576 Squadron; memorial; RAF Elsham Wolds
Reunion ticket and Ivor Cole with Syd Marshall
Tags: 103 Squadron; 576 Squadron; RAF Elsham Wolds
Elsham Wolds' Great Part in Bombing Campaign
Tags: 100 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 576 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); ditching; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Kirmington; RAF North Killingholme; rivalry; Wellington
Ground and aircrew with a Lancaster
Photograph 2 is of an aircrew under the nose of a Lancaster. The nose displays a number of operation symbols.
Syd Marshall and crew
Photograph 2 is of Sergeant Syd Marshall, half-length portrait.
Photograph 3 is of seven aircrew under the nose of a Lancaster.
Tags: 576 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; nose art; RAF Elsham Wolds
Lancaster Mike Squared
Photograph 2 is of seven airmen posed on the port wing of Mike Squared.