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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Atlantic Ocean"
Laconia incident. Part 1
Tags: arts and crafts; submarine
Laconia incident. Part 7
Tags: arts and crafts
Laconia incident. Part 8
Tags: arts and crafts
Laconia incident. Part 9
Tags: arts and crafts; strafing
Rockall islet
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Tags: aerial photograph; RAF Earls Colne
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Tags: bombing; entertainment; Gneisenau; Scharnhorst; training
Rotterdam and Zeebrugge
Interview with John Cooper
Syd Marshall's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Herbert O'Hara diary and account of Atlantic crossing in 1941
Oliver Gomersal's service history
Tags: 621 Squadron; RAF Silloth; training; Wellington
Interview with William Bryan
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; ditching; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; radar; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pocklington; Resistance; shot down; submarine; training
Interview with Donald Wallace
Standard meteorological air reconnaissance flights performed by the Royal Air Force
The code names for the routes are Magnum,…
Robert McClement's Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bombers, Air Gunners, Flight Engineers
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 20 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); FIDO; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pembrey; RAF Riccall; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Halifax on Epicure flight
Centre, air-to-air view of a Halifax in flight, from abeam and slightly above, Forward part of…
Tags: 517 Squadron; Halifax
Interview with John David Pennington Cotter
Interview with Ronald Huntley
Interview with Norm Maconachie
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Defiant; Dominie; entertainment; fear; Gee; Lancaster; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Madley; RAF Millom; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
Interview with Eric Horsham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; Master Bomber; military living conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator