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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Duisburg"
Bill Chubb’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Bonn and Duisburg
Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photograph of Duisburg. The river is visible but much detail is obscured by cloud and smoke.
Homberg and Hohembudberg
Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photograph of Hohembudberg, Duisberg. It shows a night attack with incendiary bombs burning…
Battle damaged Wellington
Photo 2 is two airmen inspecting the damaged fabric at the tail of a Wellington.
Ruhr dams breached and growing devastation in the Ruhr
Rex Searle's flying log book.
Tags: 120 Squadron; 1666 HCU; 206 Squadron; 210 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 47 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; RAF Abingdon; RAF Colerne; RAF Dishforth; RAF East Moor; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Wombleton; Shackleton; training
Operational Record ledger
Tags: 156 Squadron; anti-Semitism; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); briefing; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; target indicator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
101 squadron Lancaster dropping incendiaries
This stone was unlaid at Duisburg by 50 Sqdn
Commemorative Plaque
On the left and right - RAF bases and operations carried out from them.
On the right - a map on northern Europe and United…
G Cruickshank operations playing cards
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; mine laying; superstition
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
Airborne Cigar Lancaster dropping bombs
Tags: 101 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster
Tom Wharmby's crew biographies
Flying Officer Ronald Herman Downes Cook, wireless operator/ air gunner;
Sergeant Ronald Hughes, navigator;
Sergeant John…
Letter to Mrs Ramsay referring to the loss of her son
Notes on flights in 1944 and 1945
Bomb aimers briefing 21 May 1944
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; mine laying; Window
Lancaster and Fred Phillips' crew
Duisburg [place]
Incendiary hail swamps the target
Tags: bombing; incendiary device; Lancaster
Düren and Duisburg
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour