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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Berkshire"
Parade
Geoff Dixon's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; Harvard; Magister; pilot; Tiger Moth; training
AVM Ekanayake Edward (Rohan) Amerasekera DFC & Bar, R.Cy.A.F.
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Graveley; RAF Lissett; training; Whitley; wireless operator
A dedication to AVM Ekanayake Edward (Rohan) Amerasekera DFC & Bar, R.Cy.A.F
Tags: 158 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; navigator; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Graveley; RAF Lissett; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Letter from Ian Hay to his grandmother
Ian Hay RAF personnel document
L V Rosser’s pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 10 OTU; 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1668 HCU; 19 OTU; 26 OTU; 35 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Bottesford; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Gamston; RAF Little Horwood; RAF Shenington; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; training; Wellington
L V Rosser’s pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 10 OTU; 12 OTU; 1668 HCU; 19 OTU; 26 OTU; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Defiant; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dishforth; RAF Gamston; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Shenington; RAF Topcliffe; training; Wellington; Whitley
Cecil O'Brien Biography
Tags: 29 OTU; 466 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; crewing up; entertainment; final resting place; Flying Training School; George Cross; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; observer; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Driffield; RAF Ramsbury; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; sport; Tiger Moth; training; wireless operator
Interview with Leslie Curtis
Tags: aircrew; ditching; pilot; RAF Harwell; Wellington
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 18 OTU; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evading; FIDO; Gee; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; operational training unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Manston; RAF Methwold; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
John Nettleton VC
Tags: 185 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 97 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Fw 190; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Hampden; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stalag Luft 3; training; Victoria Cross
Aircraft losses, accidents
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Letter to Harold Wakefield from RAF records office
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Burning Albemarle and Leave Passes
There are two leave passes from Hampstead Norris for Ernest Probyn.
Tags: aircrew; Albemarle; RAF Hampstead Norris