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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Braunschweig"
Second and third operations, Walcheren and Brunswick
Tags: bombing
Donald Fraser's navigator's, air bomber's, air gunner's flying log book
V Group News, April 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; radar; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
V Group News, May 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; flight engineer; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; radar; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; rivalry; sport; Stirling; training; wireless operator
G Cruickshank operations playing cards
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; mine laying; superstition
Commemorative Plaque
On the left and right - RAF bases and operations carried out from them.
On the right - a map on northern Europe and United…
V Group News, August 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; pilot; radar; rivalry; sport; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; wireless operator
V Group News, October 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; H2S; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; radar; rivalry; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
V Group News, November 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; H2S; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); pilot; radar; rivalry; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
V Group News, January 1945
Operational Record ledger
Tags: 156 Squadron; anti-Semitism; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); briefing; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; target indicator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Headlines on western and eastern fronts as well as announcement of Roosevelt's death
Alan Edgar's Operations
Tags: 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Woodbridge; V-1; V-weapon
Operational history of Lancaster 1B R5868
Tags: 467 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Lancaster; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon
Arthur Tindall's service and operations
Tags: 44 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Witchford; target indicator; V-weapon; wireless operator
Brunswick
Jim Eley and Crew
Annotated 'Good Luck!…
15 Squadron Wyton, 1651 HCU Waterbeach and 214 Squadron operations
Notes from Squadron and station operational records
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; navigator; pilot; RAF Graveley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; Spitfire; training; Typhoon; Walrus; wireless operator
Target map Braunschweig
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: H2S
Battle of France Starts in the Air
Service history
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Wretham; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wittering; RAF Wymeswold; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator