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Tags: air gunner; aircrew; pilot; Wellington
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Three
The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.
Tags: 100 Group; 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Honington; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Oulton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Shipdham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodbridge; Stearman; Stirling; superstition; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Two
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter One
There is a second copy with handwritten edits.
Holten in Oorlogstjd (1984) - Holten in Wartime
Some memories of the war
Account of Ditching
The Fate of Lancaster PB158
Lancaster JB139 Dark Victor
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Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Lancaster; mess; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; Spitfire; Tallboy; target indicator; target photograph; V-1; wireless operator
467 Squadron (RAAF) Waddington 1943
Memoirs by Crew Members' Family of the Collision with Ron Carter's Lancaster
Memories of Past Times
Tags: 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Caterpillar Club; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Oakington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; Tiger Moth; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley
The Hemmens Story
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; crash; Halifax; Lancaster; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 3
Pierre Madry raises his Hat to the Crew of a British Bomber
Finally there is an address by Abbe Plante, parish priest of Lyons-la-Foret,…
Verona Marshalling Yards, North Italy and Wellington crew
Tags: aircrew; bombing; target indicator; Wellington
River Danube and Kalamaki Aerodrome
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; mine laying
Gresse Church Chronicle Extract
In the second part he describes damage to the cemetery during a bombardment from the other…
One Day in May on a Bomber Station
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; flight engineer; fuelling; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; mess; meteorological officer; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Dalton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Topcliffe; superstition; target indicator; wireless operator
16/17th June - Target Essen
Draft life story
Life story work - Kathleen ("Katie") Reid
Account of emergency in Wellington
Axe Retrieved from Field at Thin-le Moutier, France
An Arial Drama
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; killed in action; Lancaster; V-1; V-weapon
Memoir
Tags: 1669 HCU; 227 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 582 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Balderton; RAF Graveley; RAF Langar; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; Tiger force; training; Wellington