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Flight Log to Stuttgart
Tags: aircrew; bombing; incendiary device; navigator
Letter to Mrs Roy Ellis from 199 Squadron
Letter to Mrs Doreen Ellis from 199 Squadron
Letter to Mrs Doreen Ellis from 199 Squadron
Two Letters to Mrs Doreen Ellis
The second letter is a reply to a request to send a last letter from her husband.
Letter to Kaye Turner from John Turner
Time out for war
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 3 Group; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Methwold; RAF Sturgate; RAF Torquay; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…
Tags: 5 Group; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; Guinea Pig Club; Hampden; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator
Water under the bridge
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 3 Group; 620 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Defiant; Do 217; Dominie; Dulag Luft; evading; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 109; Me 110; meteorological officer; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; P-51; Pathfinders; petrol bowser; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Marham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Turweston; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Red Cross; service vehicle; Stirling; strafing; tractor; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
50 years ago
Interview with Gerald McPherson
Tags: 15 Squadron; 186 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; faith; Gee; operational training unit; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Turweston; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Tommy Knox
Letter to Bill Eyles and certificate for award of pathfinder badge
Letter to Charles Hamilton's Mother
Tags: 85 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; missing in action; pilot; prisoner of war
A Reminiscence of the Flying Characteristics of Many Old Type Aircraft
Tags: aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Defiant; Dominie; Fw 190; ground crew; Halifax; Harvard; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Magister; Manchester; Me 109; Mosquito; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pembrey; RAF Prestwick; RAF West Freugh; Spitfire; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); York
Interview with Charles Mears
Interview with George Thomson. One
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; crewing up; Dulag Luft; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); evading; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Lancaster; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mildenhall; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Wellington
Interview with George Thomson. Two
Interview with George Patrick Smith-Leach
Interview with Bill Moore. One
Tags: 138 Squadron; 161 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; Catalina; flight engineer; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; navigator; observer; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tuddenham; reconnaissance photograph; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training