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Colin Wood's navigational notes
Notes taken during Colin Wood's training. They cover navigation, wireless, radar, meteorology, intelligence, geography and operations.
Tags: training
Four Newspaper cuttings
Item 1 refers to a protest from Dresden over a statue to Sir Arthur Harris.
Item 2 is a letter thanking Sir Arthur Harris from a couple bombed out of their home in Liverpool.
Item 3 is an article titled 'Remembering Bomber H'.
Item 4 is a letter…
Item 2 is a letter thanking Sir Arthur Harris from a couple bombed out of their home in Liverpool.
Item 3 is an article titled 'Remembering Bomber H'.
Item 4 is a letter…
Interview with Laura Hickey
Laura Hickey was living in Tottenham at the outbreak of war and was evacuated to Suffolk. Her brother, Charles Henry Clarke joined the RAF and was shot down, becoming a prisoner of war and enduring the Long March. She tells of her times as an…
Interview with Bert Mason
Bert Mason was born in Germany and worked in light engineering and driving ambulances before joining the RAF in 1942. He started training as a navigator before joining a crew and became an air gunner on 195 Squadron at Wratting Common. He tells of…
Interview with Lawrence Henry di Placito. One
Lawrence di Placito served as a second-class coxswain on the RAF Air Sea Rescue launches during the Second World War. He was born in Chertsey and attended Egham grammar school where he was a member of the cadet force. Upon leaving school in 1936 he…
Interview with Lawrence Henry di Placito. Two
Lawrence di Placito served as a second-class coxswain on the RAF Air Sea Rescue launches during the Second World War. Henry gives further details of his experiences in rescues, both successful and those with a tragic ending. He also tells of Ealing…
Interview with Mike Cope
Mike is the adopted brother of James (known as Sonny) who was in the Royal Air Force with 460 Squadron. The crew were all English apart from the Australian pilot. James was a wireless operator/mid-upper air gunner. Mike was seven in 1943 when his…
Interview with Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson is the nephew of Fred Denzel James Thompson. Fred’s father was Churchill’s bodyguard. In 1936 Fred joined the Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation Department and, following a meeting with Winston Churchill, volunteered as a…
Interview with Percival Trotman
Applying for RAF Bomber Command in May 1940, Percival Trotman was called up in September 1940, training as a pilot at RAF Towyn in Aberystwyth. Being present at Coventry when the town was bombed, he recalls deciding that the Germans deserved to have…
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Flying Training School; forced landing; Initial Training Wing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with William Joseph Longhurst
William Longhurst served as an engine mechanic through the Second World War. He was a member of the Hackney Wick Air Defence Cadet Corps before volunteering to enlist in the RAF after his seventeenth birthday. Following basic training at Skegness,…
Letter from Air Officer Records
Writes enclosing the Flying Log Book of Sergeant J R Davies and includes typed ‘Certificate of Death of Sgt John Richard Davies who lost his life on 3 August 1944.'
Tags: killed in action
Operations order 21 May 1944
List aircraft and crews for operations 21/22 May 1944. Includes duty personnel. Annotated 'Bombing, colours' and some pencilled notes. On the reverse handwritten notes on bombing method, route,timings, Window.
Operations order 7 May 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations 7 May 1944. Included timings and duty personnel. Heights written in pencil for each crew. On the reverse some handwritten calculations.
Operations order 6 December 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations 6/7 December 1944. One member of each crew is underlined. Includes, duty, reserve crews and duty personnel as well as timings. On the reverse title 'Next of Kin for crew of Lancaster Mk1 DB.751.G. missing on…
Operations order 26 September 1944
List crews and aircraft for operations on night 26/27 September 1944. Fourth member of each crew is underlined in green. Standby crew has aircraft 'T' annotated alongside. Includes duty personnel. On the reverse extensive handwritten bombing and…
Operations order 24 July 1944
List crews and aircraft for operations on night 24/25 July 1945. Includes duty personnel. On the reverse part of a medical form, not filled in and scribbled over in blue.
Operations order 6 November 1944 - Gravenhorst
Lists crews and aircraft for operations on night 6/7 November. Annotated 'Gravenhorst' top right. Fourth member of each crew is underlined. Numbers are annotated above each aircraft. A crew member is replaced in first crew top row. Two crews are…
Personnel Occurrence Report (Officers)
Lists 44 Squadron officer personnel for leave, appointments and promotions, change of address of next of kin
Operations order 29 October 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations on 30 October 1944. Fourth member of each crew is underlined. Nine crews are struck through and two have aircraft changes. Includes reserve crew and duty personnel.
Operations order 10 October 1944
Has part 1 with seven crews and aircraft listed and part 2 with five crews, a reserve crew and aircraft listed. There is a replacement in second crew from left top line and the second crew from left in last row is crossed out. Includes duty personnel…
Operations order 28 October 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations on night 28/29 October 1944. Fourth member of each crew is underlined in blue and ticked. Includes two standby crews, briefing times and duty personnel. On the reverse a blank airman's clearance certificate.
Operations order 24 October 1944
Lists four crews and aircraft for operations on night 24/25 October 1944. Fourth member of each crew is underlined. Includes briefing times and duty personnel.
Operations order 23 October 1944
Lists six crews and aircraft for operations on 23 October 1944. Fourth member of each crew is underlines and ticked. Heights are annotated to each aircraft. At the bottom programme for night 23/24 lists two crews but no aircraft.
Operations order 16 June 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations on night 16/17 June 1944. Members of each crew have aircraft letters annotated against them. Includes duty personnel.