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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; 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
Bob Smith's Memoirs
Tags: 106 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 166 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 44 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 619 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; flight engineer; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Breighton; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Desborough; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harrington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Silloth; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wigtown; RAF Witchford; Red Cross; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; training; V-1; Wellington; wireless operator
A Tour of Operations with RAF Bomber Command No XV/15 Squadron Mildenhall
Covers his operational tour and bombing operations.
Tags: 1 Group; 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 186 Squadron; 195 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 5 Group; 514 Squadron; 6 Group; 617 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; escaping; flight engineer; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Master Bomber; Me 109; mess; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Sealand; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Weston Zoyland; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; target photograph; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Bob Smith's Memoirs Book 2
Covers his training.
Tags: 1653 HCU; 3 Group; 467 Squadron; 5 Group; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; crash; crewing up; flight engineer; Gee; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mess; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Andover; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harrington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Silloth; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wigtown; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Bob Smith's Memoirs 1
Tags: 115 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 4 Group; 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 466 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 619 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; Boston; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; H2S; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Breighton; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Waddington; RAF Witchford; recruitment; Red Cross; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 7; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
WW2 Service in the RAAF Robert Wylie Smith
Tags: Air Observers School; aircrew; recruitment; training
Christmas greetings 1944
Tags: RAF Waddington
467 Squadron (RAAF) Waddington 1943
Aircrew of R5573-ZNB
Snowy at Investiture receiving DFM
Two Airmen and a Route Map
Tags: aircrew
Letter to Richard Kellet from the King
Our Speed Team
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; navigator; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Manston
Air Commodore Richard Kellet's Obituary
In Memory of an Airman
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; killed in action; memorial
Envelope Addressed to Mrs Turner
On the reverse 'Sender :- F/Lt & Mrs Hope RAF North Luffenham, Rutland'.
Tags: aircrew; RAF North Luffenham
Union Jack newspaper 25 July 1945
Page 1 headline is: 'I SAW GENERAL SHOOT AT PRISONERS'.
Page 2 is given over to the forthcoming General…
Tags: bombing; entertainment; Holocaust; prisoner of war; sport
The Fantastic Elsham Wolds Story
Tags: Halifax; Hamilcar; Lancaster; RAF Elsham Wolds; Tallboy
One Day in May on a Bomber Station
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; flight engineer; fuelling; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; mess; meteorological officer; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Dalton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Topcliffe; superstition; target indicator; wireless operator
Eric Foinette's memoir
Alan McInnes memoir
He…
Tags: 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Fw 190; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); ground personnel; H2S; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Lichfield; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wyton; Red Cross; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; target indicator; the long march; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force