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Interview with Leslie Turner
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; crewing up; demobilisation; entertainment; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; home front; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Melbourne; sport; training; Whitley
With the children
Top right: Two women and a man on deckchairs. Captioned, 'Barbara and Bill'.
Centre: A man sits with a view of the…
Tags: animal
5 ITW No 1 Squadron C Flight
A second copy has Denis circled, named and service number annotated.
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; RAF Torquay; training
Around the world
Tags: RAF Akeman Street; RAF Breighton; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Croft; RAF Exeter; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Gaydon; RAF Grove; RAF Halton; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hendon; RAF High Ercall; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Holmsley South; RAF Honington; RAF Hurn; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lichfield; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Lyneham; RAF Melbourne; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Molesworth; RAF Netheravon; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Ossington; RAF Peplow; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Saltby; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Staverton; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Talbenny; RAF Wattisham; RAF Westcott; RAF Woolfox Lodge
Reminiscences of service in the Royal Air Force - 1937 to 1945
Tags: 115 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 27 OTU; 3 Group; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; forced landing; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; Magister; Me 110; military living conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Benson; RAF Farnborough; RAF Harwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marham; RAF Ringway; RAF Sealand; RAF Sywell; RAF Tangmere; RAF Weston Zoyland; Stranraer; Sunderland; Swordfish; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Walrus; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Trainees
A note identifies Mike and reads,…
Tags: aircrew; RAF Paignton; training
Trainees
A good weekend
Tags: RAF Paignton; training
AC2 Wayman
Tags: aircrew; RAF Paignton; training
D Flight, No 2 Squadron, 3 ITW
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; RAF Torquay; training
Recollections of a flight engineer. Version Two
Tags: 1658 HCU; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; animal; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Meteor; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Hemswell; RAF Leconfield; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Riccall; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; training; wireless operator
Harry Kartz
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; animal
The Wellington bomber - Dad's life during the 2nd World War
To war in a Stirling - the life and times of Flight Lieutenant Stanley Robert Grafton DFC RAFVR
Tags: 10 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1653 HCU; 26 OTU; 3 Group; 90 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; B-17; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing up; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; fuelling; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; military service conditions; mine laying; nose art; observer; Operational Training Unit; petrol bowser; RAF Abingdon; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Watton; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wing; RAF Wratting Common; service vehicle; Stirling; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
D Flight, No 2 Squadron, 3 ITW, April 1941
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
Sgt J R Anyan (Observer) 106 Squadron
Horace Cooke's pilot's flying log book
The…
Tags: aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; Bombing and Gunnery School; Cornell; Flying Training School; Hampden; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Acklington; RAF Benson; RAF Burnaston; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Oakington; RAF Polebrook; RAF Prestwick; RAF Torquay; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wattisham; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Dauphin; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Dan Nash memoir
Tags: 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 27 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); briefing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dominie; entertainment; evacuation; Initial Training Wing; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; promotion; propaganda; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Hednesford; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lichfield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Locking; RAF Marham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Pembrey; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; searchlight; service vehicle; sport; Stirling; superstition; target photograph; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Eulogy for Ernest (Denny) Alfred Denham
Tags: aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Torquay; training; Wellington
Reported missing
Reported missing
Tags: missing in action