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- Contributor is exactly "Sue Smith"
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 18 OTU; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evading; FIDO; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Manston; RAF Methwold; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woodbridge; searchlight; Spitfire; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Account of emergency in Wellington
Address Book
Tags: prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Ternhill
Admiral Shyte-Awk
Below - explanation that Admiral Shyte-Awk was the aircraft…
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Lancaster; nose art; pilot; superstition
Aiming Point Certificate
Tags: 57 Squadron; aircrew; arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster
Air gunners course photograph
Tags: air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; RAF Evanton; training
Aircrew
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Oulton
Airmen Group Photo
Airmen grouped in front of Spitfire
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Spitfire
An account of John Joyner's time in the RAF
Post war his squadron took part in the repatriation of Army personnel from Italy and his unit was in India at around the time…
An Arial Drama
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; killed in action; Lancaster; V-1; V-weapon
An ode to the Daylighters of 106
Tags: 106 Squadron; arts and crafts; bombing; Gneisenau; Me 109; Spitfire
An Open Letter by Way of an Editorial to my Grandson, Paul
Tags: killed in action; memorial