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Arthur Pearce Air Force Diary 1945
Navigation chart - operation number 3 to Aachen
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation log Op No 3
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation chart - operation number 4
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation log Op No 4
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation chart - operation number 11
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation log - Op No 11
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation chart - operation number 21
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation log - Op No 21
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation chart - operation number 22 (Stuttgart)
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation log - Op No 22
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation chart - operation number 27
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation log - Op No 27
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation chart - operation number 28
Tags: aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
Navigation log - Op No 28
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Wickenby
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
460 Squadron Operations
Interview with Arthur Atkins
Interview with Jack Bell
Interview with Francis Shamus "Jim" Cahir
Interview with Keith Campbell. Two
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; superstition; the long march; training