Browse Items (9 total)
- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Germany--Königsberg in Bayern"
Richard Pexton’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 61 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Grantham; RAF Montrose; RAF Syerston; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; RCAF Medicine Hat; Spitfire; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Walrus; Wellington
Phillip Matthews' Royal Air Force navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 29 OTU; 61 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
V Group News, October 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; H2S; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; radar; rivalry; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
V Group News, August 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; pilot; radar; rivalry; sport; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; wireless operator
Robert Anderson's memoir
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); fear; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; searchlight; service vehicle; Tiger force; tractor; training; Wellington; Yale