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Interview with William Anderson
Tags: 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; recruitment; searchlight; training; York
Interview with Vic Farmer
Interview with Heino Dirks
Tags: bombing; crash; firefighting; prisoner of war; Wellington
Normandy landings
The day I reviewed the German army
George Reid Williamson reading a newspaper in the Bois de Boulogne
Tags: evading; Resistance
George Reid Williamson on a rooftop
Tentaively identified as Paris by Cunin Yves and Charles Woodham of the…
Tags: evading
Cap Gris Nez
Identification…
Tags: aerial photograph; RAF Earls Colne
Rambouillet
Flight Lieutenant Roger Alfred Calvert – 152814
Roger Calvert's Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 141 Squadron; 21 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Initial Training Wing; Me 110; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Cranfield; RAF Great Massingham; RAF Ouston; RAF Padgate; RAF Torquay; RAF Twinwood Farm; RAF West Raynham; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
An anxious moment
Don Briggs, a brief description of wartime service
Tags: 156 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; Master Bomber; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; promotion; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF St Athan; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Wittering; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Tribute to a Pathfinder captain
Tags: 156 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing up; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; fear; flight engineer; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; Me 110; military service conditions; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; searchlight; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-1; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter to his wife from Herbert Gray.
Letter to his wife from Herbert Gray
Letter to his wife from Herbert Gray
Langford Green’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 218 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Ingham; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; training; Wellington
Modane crowded good yards
Tags: bombing
Nevers Railway Yards
Caen
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Tags: aerial photograph; bombing
Ault
Cleethorpes gunner killed in action : seven of family still alive
Tags: killed in action
Dunkirk Docks
Interview with Fred Young
Tags: 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Lancaster; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Melksham; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling