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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "England--Somerset"
Letter to Lewis Ellis from Marion
Ivan Ure ... just ... Chapters in a Life .. and some History
Tags: 10 Squadron; 4 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Botha; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Defiant; ditching; Dominie; Dulag Luft; entertainment; flight engineer; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lysander; Me 109; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; radar; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Cosford; RAF Hendon; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Padgate; RAF Sywell; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Yatesbury; Red Cross; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Flight Sergeant Ronald Arthur 'Tom' Gorton
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1659 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Caterpillar Club; flight engineer; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; love and romance; missing in action; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Lissett; RAF Locking; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Uxbridge; shot down; Stalag 7A; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; training
Interview with Richard Moore
Harry Brabin memoir
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his mother
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his mother
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his mother
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his mother
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his mother
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his family
Letter from Kenneth Smith to his brother
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
Conversation with Bob O'Dell
Tags: 1664 HCU; 408 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; navigator; Oxford; pilot; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Dalton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Kenley; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Locking; RAF St Athan; Tiger Moth; training; wireless operator
John Waugh’s Royal Australian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 27 OTU; 467 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAAF Lowood; RAAF Narrandera; RAF Fairoaks; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kidlington; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lulsgate Bottom; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Sunderland; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Richard Wensley’s Royal Air Force Flight Engineers Flying Log Book
Tags: 1657 HCU; 214 Squadron; 242 Squadron; 46 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; missing in action; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Merryfield; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; shot down; Stirling; training; York
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
Four newspaper cuttings
Top right - Taunton officer wins DFC. Awarded to Squadron Leader Denis Clyde-Smith. Citation…