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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Buckinghamshire"
Service record from August 1942 until November 1946 November
Tags: 1661 HCU; 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; fitter airframe; forced landing; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mechanics airframe; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; recruitment; Stirling; training
Sergeant W. Dixon’s RAF Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 61 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Banff; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Carnaby; RAF Evanton; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Netheravon; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stradishall; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Sergeant A P Brander’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Septimus Robinson observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Also a page with images of the log book front cover and the summary of training. Above the images it is…
Sandy Saunders' pilots flying log book
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; pilot; Tiger Moth; training
RT Black Certificate of Service and Discharge
Royal Air Force Halton apprentices
Tags: RAF Halton; training
Ronald Mathers pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 1660 HCU; 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Morton Hall; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Sywell; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Ronald Gard’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 463 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
Reg Miles Audio Memoir
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Reg and Kath Busby
Tags: love and romance
Recollections by Hector Crawford
Tags: Blenheim; bombing; childhood in wartime; crash
Recollections and reflections by Patricia Hook
Raymond Harris's Pilot's log book
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 50 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Fw 190; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Bardney; RAF South Cerney; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RCAF Bowden; Stearman; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
RAF Westcott
Tags: bomb dump; crash; dispersal; Lancaster; perimeter track; RAF Westcott; runway
RAF Officers record of service - Kenneth Saw
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Snaith
RAF Halton workshop
On the reverse '98 Entry B Class Halton 7.5.43' and 12 signatures.
Tags: ground personnel; RAF Halton; training
RAF Halton Rugby Team
Tags: RAF Halton; sport; training
RAF Halton in 1938
First is of the three story brick accommodation blocks arranged around a square with some apprentices running, caption '10 times round the square'.
The…
RAF Halton Apprentices Rugby Team
Tags: RAF Halton; sport; training
RAF Church Green
Tags: arts and crafts
Programme for Flying Demonstration by Aircraft of the Home Commands RAF
Tags: Beaufighter; C-47; Halifax; Hamilcar; Hornet Moth; Horsa; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; RAF Halton; Spitfire; Sunderland
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