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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Essen"
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; final resting place; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); grief; incendiary device; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranwell; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
A F Hill’s flying log book extract
Aerial Photograph of Krupps, Essen
Tags: bombing; Cook’s tour
Albert Ansell's observer’s and air gunner’s log book
Albert Edward Edmunds’ pilots flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; B-25; bombing; Hudson; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; Mosquito; Oxford; pilot; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Downham Market; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hixon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington
Alice Omerod's record of Douglas Hudson's operations
Andrew Bain's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Andy Andrews’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Arthur Atkins’ flying log book for pilots
Tags: 625 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Gamston; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lichfield; RAF Sandtoft; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Arthur Hollis' award of the Distinguished Flying Cross
Arthur Loudon's flying log book for navigators
Arthur Norman Hollis’ Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; C-47; Hurricane; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cranwell; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Turweston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wattisham; RAF Westcott; Stearman; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Arthur Pearce Air Force Diary 1945
Tags: bombing
Arthur Pearce Diary 1944
Arthur Pearce's air gunners flying log book
Arthur Pearce was stationed at: RAF Bishops Court, RAF Seighford, RAF…
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 170 Squadron; 35 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Halifax; Lancaster; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Blyton; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Ingham; RAF Kelstern; RAF Seighford; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington
Aviation Memory
Tags: 102 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF North Coates; RAF North Weald; RAF Padgate; RAF Pocklington; RAF Saltby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wittering; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
B W Allen’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Bertie Foxlee’s flying log book for observer’s and air gunners
Tags: 455 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; C-47; Catalina; Dominie; Hampden; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Lichfield; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Whitchurch; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Bob Sharrock’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers.
He was stationed at RAF Dishforth and RAF Middleton St George.
Aircraft flown in were:…
Bomb aimers briefing 11 March 1945 - Essen
Bomb aimers briefing 2 January 1945 - Karlsruhe
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; RAF Spilsby; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 26 March 1944 - Essen
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; target indicator; Window
Bomb damaged German cities
Photograph 2 is a low level oblique photograph of a badly damaged city. In the distance are port cranes.
Photograph 3 and 5 are…
Tags: bombing; Cook’s tour