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- Contributor is exactly "Trevor Hardcastle"
101 Squadron [entry point]
97 Squadron [entry point]
Air Borne Cigar
Tags: 101 Squadron; incendiary device; Lancaster
Andrew Bain's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Camera course notebook
Tags: gremlin; ground crew; ground personnel; superstition; training
Comments on the 1944 Warsaw Air Bridge
Ernie Twells' notebook
Tags: training
Harold Warren's note book
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; training
Harold Wigley's RAF Pilot's Log Book
The first flight is recorded at No 7 EFTS , Desford flying in the Tiger Moth, he remained there until 28 September when he moved to No 12 SFTS flying in the Anson. In January 1941 Harold…
Interview with Geoff Brown
Geoff was born and lived in the same area of Grimsby all his life, at the date of his interview he was 93. The first part of the interview concentrated on his…
Interview with J A Taplin. Two
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; bombing; evading; ground personnel; Halifax; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Leeming; RAF Melbourne; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; the long march; training; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Rex John Arnett
John Russell and Joan Champkin's wedding
Tags: love and romance
Keith Hailey's Royal Air Force navigator’s, air bombers and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 20 OTU; 24 OTU; 433 Squadron; 635 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Downham Market; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manby; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Keith Thompson's flying log book
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1659 HCU; 1662 HCU; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 28 OTU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hixon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Creake; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watton; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wymeswold; Shackleton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Letter from a friend
Letter from Bill Akrill to all
He describes the…
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Tags: bale out; fear; prisoner of war; shot down; Stalag Luft 3
Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross; sanitation; sport; Stalag Luft 3
Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Tags: prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3