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Bomb aimers briefing 7 March 1945 - Hamburg
Indicates a single bomb load for operations on night 7 March 1945. Includes H hour, preselection and distributor settings, false height settings and other notes. Annotated with handwritten weight calculations. On the reverse marking and tactics…
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; RAF Spilsby; target indicator
Bomb aimers briefing 11 March 1945 - Essen
Indicates a single bomb load for operations on 11 March 1945. Includes time on target, preselection settings, false height settings and other notes. Annotated '146 of 5 Group and 800 a/c of other Groups'. On the reverse marking and tactics including…
Bomb aimers briefing 12 March 1945 - Dortmund
Indicates two bomb loads for squadron. Includes preselection settings and on the reverse brief target marking note, bombing height and heading and camera settings.
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; RAF Spilsby
Bomb aimers briefing 14 March 1945 Lutzendorf Oil Facility
Indicates two bomb loads, one for six aircraft the other for ten. Includes preselection settings, distributor settings, aircraft heights and false height settings and some bombing notes. On the reverse Marking and tactics including by Mosquito,…
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; RAF Spilsby; target indicator
Bomb aimers briefing 16/17 March 1945 - Wurtzburg
Indicated two bomb loads, one for five aircraft the other for eight. Includes preselection settings and time on target. On the reverse; Marking and tactics (including by Mosquito), bombing details, Window, camera, navigation and other details.
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; RAF Spilsby; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 16 April 1945 - Pilzen
Indicates two bomb loads. Includes time on target '0400', preselection settings, and false height settings. On the reverse; marking and tactics, bombing details, Window, camera, navigation notes and other details.
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; H2S; Mosquito; RAF Spilsby; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers brief 23 April 1945 - Flensburg
Indicates one bomb load and includes time on target, preselection settings, distributor settings, some handwritten calculations and code words. On the reverse; marking and tactics, notes, bombing, Window and other details,
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; RAF Spilsby; target indicator; Window
Operations order 18 February 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operation on night 18/19 February 1944. Includes timings an duty personnel. On the reverse handwritten notes on bomb loads and calculations.
Operations order 16 April 1945
List crews and aircraft for operations on night 16/17 April 1945. Includes two crews with second pilot. One or two crew members from each crew are underlined in red. Includes duty personnel.
Operations order 24 February 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations on night 24/25 February 1944. One member of each crew is underlined and ticked. Includes duty personnel and timings.
Operations order 19 February 1944
List crews and aircraft for operations on night 19/20 February 1944. One member of each crew is underlined and ticked. Includes timings and duty personnel.
Operations order 7 July 1944
Lists 18 crews and aircraft for operations on night 7/8 July 1944. Five standby crews are allocated aircraft 'U G Z X F'. all aircraft have a figure '65' annotated except two which have '59' and one with 'MC'. Included duty personnel.
Operations order 12 June 1941
Lists 17 crews of four with aircraft for bombing and four crews for gardening which are crossed through in red. All bombing crews have a time slot appended with the length in brackets.
Operations order 27 May 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations on night 27/28 May 1944. One member of each crew is underlined and ticked. Includes timings and duty personnel. Three names are annotated 'F Lt Dobson, Johnstone and P/O McCullum'. On the reverse a short…
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 14 August 1944
List crews and aircraft for operations on 15 August 1944. One member of each crew is underlined and ticked. Heights are annotated against each aircraft.Includes duty personnel and timings.
Operations order 7 September 1944
List crews and aircraft for operations on night 7/8/ September 1944. One member of each crew is underlined.and ticked. Some crew members have crosses appended alongside. Standby crew has aircraft letter 'Q' annotated alongside. Includes duty…
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 19 October 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations on 19/20 October 1944. One member of each crew is underlined in blue and two crews are circled in blue with '18 1/2' annotated alongside left crew in top row. Includes timings and duty personnel. On the reverse…
Operations order 11 November 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations on 11/12 November 1944. One member of each crew is underlined. Includes duty personnel.
Operations order 15 February 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operational flying. One crew member on each crew is underlined and ticked. Includes timings and duty personnel.
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 11 April 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations 11/12 April 1945. One crew member for some crews is ticked. Includes duty personnel. Standby crew 1 is annotated 'K'.
Operations order 14 April 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations 14/15 April 1944. One crew member in each crew is underlined and ticked. Includes duty personnel and timings.
Operations order 17 April 1944
Lists crews and aircraft for operations for 17/18 April 1944. One member of each crew is underlined in blue. 'Cancelled' written in large red letters acoss the page. Notes at the bottom.