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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Oxfordshire"
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
Reg Lane’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilot’s flying log book
He was stationed at RCAF…
Tags: 10 OTU; 35 Squadron; 405 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; B-25; B-29; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); C-47; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Harvard; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Driffield; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Linton on Ouse; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
R W Slaughter’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mid-air collision; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; training; Wellington
Propaganda leaflets
Middle, left report of an aircraft landing on a car.
Middle centre, woman holding a baby, reports of engagements and births of babies.
Bottom left, report of the death of Lieutenant Geoffrey William…
Postcard to Josie Honey from her Brother, Sid
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 7
Postcard from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: RAF Upper Heyford
Postcard from Ursula Valentine to her husband John Valentine
Tags: RAF Halton; RAF Upper Heyford
Pilot to Navigator - Where are we?
Tags: 100 Group; 4 Group; 425 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; evading; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; military service conditions; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cosford; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Manston; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Sunderland; target indicator; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley 149542 VR biography
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bramcote; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Mepal; RAF Paignton; RAF Pocklington; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Windrush; RAF Winthorpe; recruitment; shot down; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Philip Hopgood’s pilots flying log book
Philip Hopgood's Second World War Biography
Tags: 1651 HCU; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 1663 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; RAF Catterick; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Graveley; RAF Kirkham; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF Sealand; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Peter Stevens' pilot's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Flying Training School; forced landing; Hampden; Harvard; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Ansty; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranage; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Shawbury; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Watchfield; shot down; Tiger Moth; training
Peter Hazeldene's Log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lysander; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Peter Hattersley's Service Diary
Tags: 1 Group; 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; Battle; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; Stalag Luft 3; training
Peter Hattersley's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Hampden; Harvard; Hudson; Lysander; Magister; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Upavon; RAF Waddington; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Peter Galan's (Thomas Blyth's navigator) - navigators flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1658 HCU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; training; Whitley
Percy Pickard, Alan Broadley, and F Parsons
Tags: missing in action; prisoner of war
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Top middle - three-quarter length b/w photograph of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet standing in a room. Captioned 'F/O Jim Derrnocly…
Notes on Bomber Command
Norman Denys Sinclair’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 187 Squadron; 309 Squadron; 525 Squadron; 540 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; C-47; Flying Training School; Hornet Moth; Hudson; Ju 52; Lancaster; Lysander; Magister; Maryland; Me 109; Mosquito; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Ansty; RAF Bathurst; RAF Benson; RAF Coleby Grange; RAF Gibraltar; RAF Grantham; RAF Leuchars; RAF Meir; RAF Membury; RAF Netheravon; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Renfrew; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Wymeswold; Scharnhorst; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; Sunderland; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training