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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Atlantic Ocean--English Channel"
Reg Woolgar's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; crash; ditching; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Hudson; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Martinet; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Foulsham; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Manby; RAF Peterborough; RAF Scampton; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Record of John Beisley's 30 operations
Recommendation for Honours and Awards (DFM) for Peter Jenkinson
Recollection of the navigator of a Lancaster which took part in the bombing of Dresden on 13/14 February 1945
Rascal’s flying log book for aircrew mascot
Tags: 1656 HCU; 19 OTU; 635 Squadron; 81 OTU; 97 Squadron; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; RAF Yatesbury; superstition; training; Wellington; Whitley
R.C.M. - Overlord - Night of 5 - 6 June, 1944
R S Routledge’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1657 HCU; 44 Squadron; 82 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Andreas; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Manby; RAF Morpeth; RAF Ossington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Syerston; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Peter Jenkinson operational record
Tags: 153 Squadron; 166 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); final resting place; flight engineer; Fw 190; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 262; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Kirmington; RAF Scampton; tactical support for Normandy troops; V-2; V-weapon
Palmer V.C pathfinder fact sheet
Tags: 105 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; killed in action; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Feltwell; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mildenhall; shot down; Victoria Cross; Wellington
Our first and last trips
Tags: bombing; RAF Waddington
Operations order 1 June 1944 first version
Operations
Underneath - six short documents with accounts of these six operations…
Tags: 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders
Operations
Right - document titled "The Reckoning". Giving details of bomber commands sorties, aircraft and…
Tags: 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-38; prisoner of war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Operational notes
Tags: 514 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Master Bomber; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window
Operation Overlord
Top left - newspaper cutting providing account of plan for attack on Merville battery including saturation bombing by Lancasters and ground attack. Goes on with account of actual…
Tags: 1 Group; 4 Group; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders
No 1 air observer school mid term examination - D.R Plotting
Tags: Air Observers School; aircrew; navigator; training