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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Birmingham"
Frank Howkins’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 27 OTU; 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); Dominie; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Castle Bromwich; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Lichfield; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator
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; 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
The Radio War Waged by the RAF Against Germany 1940-1945
Tags: 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; Anson; B-17; B-24; Blenheim; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Do 217; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 52; Ju 88; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; radar; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Defford; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Oulton; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
RAF Leave Form
RAF Badges cigarette card collection
Tags: 104 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 18 Squadron; 20 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 23 Squadron; 25 Squadron; 27 Squadron; 28 Squadron; 31 Squadron; 32 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 43 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 66 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; RAF Abingdon; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Calshot; RAF Catterick; RAF Duxford; RAF Farnborough; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Kenley; RAF Marham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF North Weald; RAF Northolt; RAF Odiham; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford
Cecil O'Brien Biography
Tags: 466 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; crewing up; entertainment; final resting place; 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; wireless operator
Dennis Terry's Certificate of Good Service and Leave Pass
Tags: 10 Squadron; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming
Crew List
The Story of Frank Vivian Gunning
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Arthur Woolf record of service
Letter from Arthur Woolf to his parents
Tags: RAF East Kirkby
Telegram to Arthur Woolf's father
Tags: 630 Squadron; missing in action
Letter to Mr and Mrs Davies from Red Cross
Tags: killed in action; Red Cross
Letter to Mr and Mrs Davies from Red Cross
Tags: missing in action; Red Cross
Combat report and biographies of Ernest Tansley's crew
Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley 149542 VR biography
Tags: 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Harvard; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bramcote; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Mepal; RAF Paignton; RAF Pocklington; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; recruitment; shot down; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Man wearing Sidcot flying suit
Tags: aircrew; wireless operator