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Keith Dexter first 15 colours
Tags: sport
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
Tags: arts and crafts; crash; RAF North Luffenham
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
RAF North Luffenham - Christmas 1944 Sergeants Mess Menu
Tags: mess; RAF North Luffenham
John Brittain's flying log book
Tags: 1653 HCU; 17 OTU; 195 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Morpeth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Turweston; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training; Wellington
Letter from Frank Hobbs to his daughter
Tags: RAF North Luffenham
Interview with Nancy and John Boddington
Tags: RAF North Luffenham
Frank Hobbs’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); crash; Dominie; final resting place; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF East Kirkby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pembrey; RAF Penrhos; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Yatesbury; superstition; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Frank Hobbs posting telegram
Tags: RAF North Luffenham
Frank Hobbs permission to be absent from quarters
Hugh Parry's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakley; RAF Pembrey; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Westcott; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; Wellington
Before I was in the RAF by Reg Payne
Tags: 14 OTU; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; heirloom; Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; lynching; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Waddington; RAF Wittering; sanitation; superstition; training; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter to Mr Mathews from Peter Stevens
Tags: RAF North Luffenham
Peter Stevens' pilot's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Flying Training School; forced landing; Hampden; Harvard; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Ansty; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranage; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Shawbury; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Watchfield; shot down; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Richard Hollis
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 BFTS; 50 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; civil defence; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Manchester; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; searchlight; training; Wellington
Interview with Alan Jury
Interview with Christopher George McVickers
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Hemswell; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Yatesbury; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Lawrence Clark Rogers
Interview with Victor Stapley
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crewing up; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mechanics engine; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); P-51; radar; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; Stirling; Sunderland; training
Interview with Peter Thomas
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; crash; crewing up; forced landing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Methwold; RAF Paignton; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Elizabeth Anne Tyler
Interview with Roland Spencer Williams
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Mepal; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakley; RAF Padgate; RAF Westcott; shot down; training; Wellington
Michael Beetham's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; pilot; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Desford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Morton Hall; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Ernest Smith's pilot’s flying log book. One
Tags: 14 OTU; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; 30 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Flying Training School; Hampden; Magister; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upper Heyford; training; Wellington
Interview with John Martin
Tags: 14 OTU; 166 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator