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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "France--Le Havre"
463 & 467 Squadron Notes on Ops
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 5 Group; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cook’s tour; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; RAF Waddington; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy
H Adams memoir - training and operations
Tags: 1660 HCU; 27 OTU; 467 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Mona; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Our first and last trips
Tags: bombing; RAF Waddington
List of Bert Adams operations
Tags: 467 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; incendiary device; Ju 88; navigator
Page from flying log book
Tags: 467 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Track map and logs for operation to Le Havre
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: 467 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Service record John Henry (Jack) Thomas
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 21 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Hullavington; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Postcard to Joan Wareing from Jacqueline Pillot
Tags: bale out; prisoner of war; shot down
Letter to Joan Wareing from Jacqueline Pillot
Letter to Joan Wareing from Jacqueline Pillot
Tags: killed in action; prisoner of war
Letter to Joan Wareing from Jacqueline Pillot
Tags: love and romance; prisoner of war
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
Gelsenkirchen (Buer) and Le Havre
Navigation log and plotting map for operation to Le Havre
Tags: 462 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; RAF Driffield
Navigation logs and a plotting map for an operation to Le Havre
Contains a note 'Suggest you keep awake long enough to take fixes at least once every ten minutes coming home A'.
Tags: 462 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; RAF Driffield
Navigation log and plotting map for operation to Le Havre
Tags: 462 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; RAF Driffield
Navigation logs and a plotting map for an operation to Le Havre
Tags: 462 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; RAF Driffield
Navigation log and plotting map for operation to Le Havre
Tags: 462 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; RAF Driffield
Memories of 578 Squadron at Burn 1944
Tags: 578 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; fear; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Burn; RAF Farnborough; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Jack Crawford's trip book
Tags: 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; Catalina; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; RAF Barford St John; RAF Coningsby; RAF Scampton; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 18 OTU; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evading; FIDO; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Manston; RAF Methwold; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woodbridge; searchlight; Spitfire; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
L V Rosser - private diary operations
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster; pilot; Whitley
Two newspaper cuttings
Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Halifax; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; Tirpitz; V-1; V-weapon