Browse Items (19 total)

Tags: 576 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 625 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; FIDO; Grand Slam; military discipline; Operation Dodge (1945); Oxford; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Woodhall Spa; recruitment; sanitation; take-off crash; Tallboy; training; Wellington

Tags: 115 Squadron; 1668 HCU; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Witchford; Tiger Moth; training

Tags: 189 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Silverstone; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; wireless operator

Tags: childhood in wartime; displaced person; ground personnel; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halton; RAF Honington; RAF St Athan; shelter; training

Tags: 15 Squadron; 218 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Flying Training School; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training

Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; crewing up; Dominie; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Evanton; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner

Tags: 626 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; military ethos; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Wickenby

Tags: 170 Squadron; 582 Squadron; bomb dump; Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crewing up; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Peplow; sanitation; training; Wellington

Tags: 12 OTU; 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; Cook’s tour; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Wyton; training

Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; RAF Mildenhall; Stirling; training

Tags: 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 26 OTU; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Feltwell; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; sanitation; training; Wellington; Window

Tags: B-24; C-47; fitter airframe; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; petrol bowser; RAF Halton; service vehicle

Tags: 608 Squadron; 692 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Beaufighter; Bolingbroke; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Gee; Master Bomber; Me 262; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Oxford; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Banff; RAF Credenhill; RAF Downham Market; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Upper Heyford; sanitation; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training

Tags: 77 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Halifax; Ju 88; Master Bomber; mid-air collision; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Riccall; RAF St Athan

Tags: 115 Squadron; 220 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; B-29; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lincoln; Master Bomber; navigator; observer; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Waddington; RAF Witchford; training

Tags: 115 Squadron; 1653 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Coningsby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Witchford; Stirling; training; Wellington

Tags: 199 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crash; crewing up; fear; Halifax; RAF North Creake; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wellington

Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; aircrew; animal; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Lancaster; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; Tiger Moth