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Evidence in Camera Vol 4 No 2
Tags: aerial photograph; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; reconnaissance photograph; runway; Ventura
Extracts from Alastair Lang's pilot's flying log book
F A Cavadiao
Tags: aircrew; faith; flight engineer; missing in action
F A Robinson’s flying log book for pilots. One
Tags: 543 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; Flying Training School; Gneisenau; gremlin; Harvard; Lysander; Magister; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Benson; RAF Cranwell; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hendon; RAF Odiham; RAF St Eval; Scharnhorst; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Fred Richardson's pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 1 BFTS; 207 Squadron; 29 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; arts and crafts; bombing; British Flying Training School Program; C-47; Flying Training School; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Gamston; RAF Langar; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ossington; Stearman; training; Wellington
G A Hubbard’s Royal Canadian Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1659 HCU; 24 OTU; 242 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 437 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Blakehill Farm; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Topcliffe; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Geoffrey Shattock’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1657 HCU; 214 Squadron; 28 OTU; 77 Squadron; 82 OTU; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; C-47; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bircotes; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Melbourne; RAF Ossington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wymeswold; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Stearman; Stirling; training; Wellington
George Cook’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 205 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Catalina; Hampden; Hornet Moth; Lancaster; mine laying; Oxford; RAF Alness; RAF Carew Cheriton; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Koggala; RAF Oban; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; Sunderland; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Gordon Dennett's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 15 OTU; 196 Squadron; 298 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; bale out; bomb aimer; Botha; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Driffield; RAF Evanton; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Salbani; RAF Yatesbury; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Hastie DFC: The Life and Times of a Wartime Pilot
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 157 Squadron; 2 Group; 214 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Bismarck; Botha; C-47; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evacuation; Flying Training School; Gee; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; radar; RAF Banff; RAF Catfoss; RAF Catterick; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Farnborough; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leuchars; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF North Coates; RAF Oulton; RAF Padgate; RAF Prestwick; RAF Riccall; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Thornaby; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Windrush; RAF Woodbridge; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Homer Lawson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 19 OTU; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Llandwrog; Raf Mauripur; RAF Melbourne; RAF Penrhos; RAF Rufforth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Hugh Ward's Royal Air Force observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Stirling; training
I Flew with Nine Wing Commanders
Tags: 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; debriefing; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; Do 217; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 3; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; promotion; RAF Cosford; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RAF Tilstock; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; target photograph; training; Whitley; Window
Individual history of Avro Lancaster B Mk1 R5868/7325M
Tags: 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; bombing; Cook’s tour; Fw 190; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bottesford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Wroughton; RAF Wyton; V-weapon
Interview with Colin Deverell
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; Mosquito; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wratting Common; recruitment; Resistance; searchlight; Stirling; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Jack Pragnell
Interview with Percival Trotman
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Flying Training School; forced landing; Initial Training Wing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley
J.S. Hitchcock’s RAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Two
Tags: 10 OTU; 1658 HCU; 78 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Magister; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Hullavington; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Riccall; RAF Shallufa; RAF Upavon; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; training; Wellington; Whitley
Jack Howell's RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Jack Wakefield’s Royal New Zealand Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Initial training at No. 1 Air Observers School, RNZAF, followed by 5 Operational Training Unit. Posted to 75…
Tags: 15 OTU; 23 OTU; 38 Squadron; 5 OTU; 7 OTU; 75 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Defiant; forced landing; Hudson; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Aston Down; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Limavady; RAF Pershore; RAF Shallufa; RNZAF Delta; RNZAF Ohakea; training; Wellington
Jack Whymark’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Initial training at No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School and 225 Squadron. Posted to 149 Squadron for…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 225 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; evacuation; Harrow; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lysander; Martinet; mine laying; missing in action; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Glatton; RAF Ingham; RAF Kabrit; RAF Manby; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Syerston; RAF Tilshead; RAF West Freugh; training; Wellington
James Lee’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 467 Squadron; 99 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); C-47; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Bottesford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Ossington; RAF Scampton; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; York
JE Hanson flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Botha; crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Hampden; killed in action; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Me 109; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Coningsby; RAF Finningley; RAF Lindholme; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Warmwell; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Jo Lancaster’s pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 12 Squadron; 20 OTU; 22 OTU; 28 OTU; 40 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Flying Training School; Halifax; Lancaster; Magister; Martinet; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Binbrook; RAF Desford; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Sealand; RAF Sywell; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upavon; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wymeswold; RAF Wyton; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Spitfire; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
John Derek Bolton’s Pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 16 OTU; 162 Squadron; 25 OTU; 29 OTU; 455 Squadron; 571 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; bombing; C-47; Cook’s tour; Defiant; Flying Training School; Hampden; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bourn; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cranwell; RAF Downham Market; RAF Finningley; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Warboys; RAF Watchfield; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington; Whitley