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My private war with Hitler's Gremlins
Douglas Ross Arrowsmith’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 21 OTU; 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; Tiger Moth; training
George Thomas Hagues’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1662 HCU; 625 Squadron; 83 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Peplow; RAF Stormy Down; training
An airman to his mother
The fight with evil and my earthly mission fulfilled. Letter found amongst the personal belongings of a Royal Air Force pilot recently reported missing believed killed, to be sent to his mother if he were…
A Woolley’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Harry Dawson's decorations
Tags: crash; ditching; killed in action; Wellington
Archibald Steele’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Metheringham; RAF Spitalgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF woodley; RCAF Brandon; RCAF Penhold; RCAF Virden; Tiger Moth; training
G W A White’s Royal Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1652 HCU; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Breighton; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pembrey; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Sturgate; RAF Waddington; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
H Maddox’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
D Hinshelwood’s Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1658 HCU; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Dalcross; RAF Riccall; RAF Stanton Harcourt; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Whitley
EASCO life jacket light
One image shows the item fully assembled.…
Tags: air sea rescue; ditching
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Rabbit Mascot
Tags: 630 Squadron; RAF East Kirkby; superstition
Last of the Tail Gun Charlies - Ronald Carter's Biography
At the age of 17, Ronald volunteered to join the Royal Air Force in November 1942. After basic training, Ronald was selected for gunnery and wireless operator training, becoming…
Tags: 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Caterpillar Club; crewing up; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); prisoner of war; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Ringway; RAF Waddington; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; training; wireless operator / air gunner
George Robinson
On the reverse is written: "From Mrs R Tempest Wilsford Nr Grantham. Please return this" and in a different hand: "To Eileen. All my…
Tags: aircrew; love and romance; training
George Robinson and a woman
On the reverse is the Betta Photos LTD stamp…
Tags: love and romance