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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "France--Saumur"
Saumur Tunnel
Flying Officer John Waugh "Target" flight tracks
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Tags: 467 Squadron; 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); navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Waddington; tactical support for Normandy troops
Bill Foskett Biography - Chapter Three
Tags: 100 Group; 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Honington; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Oulton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Shipdham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodbridge; Stearman; Stirling; superstition; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
William Elliot Siddle
Tags: 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Enniskillen to Avignon
#1 has a route to St Martin de Marreville dated 28/5/44.
#2 has a route to Saumur, dated 31/1/644.
#3 has a route to Nantes dated 29/5/44.
#4 has a route to Mailly le Camp
John Thorp's list of operations
Page from flying log book
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Ernest Probyn's Log book Extract
15 Squadron Wyton, 1651 HCU Waterbeach and 214 Squadron operations
V Group News, June 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb dump; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; radar; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; rivalry; service vehicle; tactical support for Normandy troops; tractor; training; wireless operator
V Group News, May 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; flight engineer; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; radar; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; rivalry; sport; Stirling; training; wireless operator