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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia)"
Thirty first operation, Wesel
Tags: bombing; propaganda
Map of Cooks Tour June 1945
Extracts from 195 Squadron Operations Record book covering John Brittain's operations
Target Wesel
On the second sheet a complete aircrew list of each aircraft.
On a third sheet is…
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; fuelling; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; pilot; RAF Spilsby
Page 10 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 - air-to-air view from the mid-upper turret looking aft towards five Lancasters.
Photo 3 - vertical aerial photograph of Wesel, Germany during a bombing…
Rex Searle's flying log book.
Tags: 120 Squadron; 1666 HCU; 206 Squadron; 210 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 47 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; RAF Abingdon; RAF Colerne; RAF Dishforth; RAF East Moor; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Wombleton; Shackleton; training
Wesel
Wesel and Essen
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
Jim Eley and Crew
Annotated 'Good Luck!…
Wesel
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Newspaper article on Bomber Command operations
Wesel Bomb damage
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Hannover and Wesel
Top left middle - view across river with downed bridge.
Top middle right - view across water of bridge with span blown up.
Top right - view across street with military vehicles of…
Tags: bombing
Memoir
Tags: 1669 HCU; 227 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 582 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Balderton; RAF Graveley; RAF Langar; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Wesel Cooks tour
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
F/O CAH Darby No 154676 - Letters home
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 186 Squadron; 622 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Barford St John; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Burn; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Scampton; RAF Stradishall; RAF Syerston; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
16/17th June - Target Essen
Willibrordi-Dom, Wesel
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour