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World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington; Window
Walter Goodwin’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1661 HCU; 21 OTU; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
The Kriegie July 1999
Tags: 149 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 58 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Caterpillar Club; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; escaping; flight engineer; George Cross; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; mine laying; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cosford; RAF Halton; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Pocklington; RAF Spilsby; RAF St Eval; RAF West Freugh; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
The Kriegie August 1986
The crew
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Ten fighter attacks did not stop bomber
Telegram to Mrs Cahir from the RAAF
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Telegram to Mrs Cahir from the RAAF
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 3
Telegram to Mrs Cahir from Ronnie Taylor
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war
Telegram to Mrs Cahir from RAAF
Tags: aircrew; Halifax; missing in action
Telegram to Denis Kelly's wife
Tags: Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Telegram to Denis Kelly's wife
Tags: missing in action
Steven Downes’s flying log book
Steve Downes
Tags: aircrew; wireless operator
Short biography of Jim Cahir
Tags: 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Halifax; heirloom; prisoner of war; shot down
Seven aircrew in front of a Halifax
1. F/Lt Jim Mundle DFC 23 Bomb Aimer, Glasgow Scotland.
2. Sgt Jim Cann 2, Engineer…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; flight engineer; Halifax; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Seven aircrew
Submitted with…
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
Procedures and Life of an Air Gunner with a Lancaster Squadron
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; meteorological officer; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Prisoner of war postcards to Jim Cahir's family
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; faith; prisoner of war; Red Cross