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Verona Marshalling Yards, North Italy and Wellington crew
Tags: aircrew; bombing; target indicator; Wellington
VE Day Lancaster crash
Two stories from Pembrey
Tags: faith; RAF Pembrey
Two stories and a letter by Ted Neale
#2 Designated pilots-navigators or bomb aimers at Heaton Park then sent to Bridgnorth to await a ship to South…
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; military ethos; navigator; RAF Bridgnorth; training; Wellington
Two disturbing incidents
Incident 2. Describes watching another aircraft taking off when its flaps fell down and bomb doors opening as it reached take off speed on the runway.…
Two Days in May
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 29 OTU; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); childhood in wartime; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Wigsley; training; wireless operator
Turn down an empty glass
Tribute to a Pathfinder captain
Tags: 156 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing up; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; fear; flight engineer; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Me 110; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; searchlight; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-1; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Transcript of My life in the RAF
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Training as a flight engineer on Lancasters
Training
Tom Whitehead's Wartime log for British prisoners
Tom Wharmby
Tom Payne's Early RAF career
Tom joined the RAF at 15 after altering his birth certificate. He trained in Canada as a pilot.
Tom Payne
Tags: bombing; civil defence; evacuation; firefighting; home front; recruitment
To Cologne - Gremberg by Oboe - tribute to Squadron Leader Robert A.M.Palmer VC, DFC & Bar
Tags: 109 Squadron; 20 OTU; 582 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; B-24; B-26; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; crash; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Fw 190; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 109; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-47; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Graveley; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Manston; shot down; training; Victoria Cross; wireless operator
Time out for war
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 1656 HCU; 3 Group; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Desborough; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Methwold; RAF Sturgate; RAF Torquay; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Three Young Men Meet in 1943 while on Leave
Tags: aircrew
Three articles about Eileen Pickering and her wartime experinces
Thiepval Memorial Booklet
Tags: memorial
They Refused to Fly
A second article titled 'Norton Camp, Sheffield' is about a punishment camp where the writer was sent after cycling…
Thea Colemen - my story 1940-1945
The Years up to the Outbreak of the Second World War and How it Affected Me
Tags: 10 Squadron; 4 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ditching; Dominie; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lysander; Me 109; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Hendon; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Padgate; RAF Wittering; RAF Yatesbury; Red Cross; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner