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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Gibraltar"
Account of crash of Wellington W5421 and Flt Lt Roy Langlois's crew and Belgian Comet escape line
Book 5, Return to UK
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 196 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 623 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Catalina; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fear; flight engineer; Gee; Halifax; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; operational training unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Seighford; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Red Cross; sanitation; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Charles Godfey's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 37 Squadron; 635 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; C-47; Defiant; Dominie; evading; Hampden; Lancaster; Martinet; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Blyton; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Downham Market; RAF Graveley; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ingham; RAF Leconfield; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Newmarket; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF St Eval; RAF Sywell; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Warboys; RAF Westcott; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington
Christopher George McVickers' flying log book
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 205 Squadron; 210 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 220 Squadron; 90 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Dominie; Lancaster; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Mosquito; Proctor; RAF Binbrook; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Feltwell; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Gamston; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Ossington; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Watton; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Wratting Common; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
First airman to travel via Comète
Gibraltar [place]
Interview with Albert Smith
Tags: 170 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; entertainment; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster finishing school; love and romance; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF St Athan
Interview with Alec Stuart Dixon
Interview with Bob Frost. Two
Tags: 150 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; evading; RAF Snaith; Resistance
Interview with Bob Porteous
Interview with Christopher George McVickers
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; operational training unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Hemswell; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Gordon Mellor. Four
Interview with Gordon Mellor. Three
Interview with Gordon Mellor. Two
Interview with John Whitworth
Interview with Owen Cox
Interview with William Bryan
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; ditching; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; pilot; promotion; radar; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pocklington; Resistance; shot down; submarine; training
Keith Thompson's time on 115 Squadron
Three colour postcards of Malta, two of Grand Harbour Valetta, one captioned Maltas stone buildings and one of a horse powered carriage.
A colour postcard of a military cemetery captioned 'Tobruk, Knight Bridge Cemetery near El…
Letter from David Boldy to his father
Tags: evacuation; love and romance
Letter to commanding officer at RAF Uxbridge concerning Jack Newton ex prisoner of war
Tags: evading
Map of Comete line
Mr Churchill on his eastern journey
My War Story
Dick started his training at Lords in London, Bridlington then Bridgnorth and…
Tags: 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cosford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elvington; RAF Gaydon; RAF Inverness; RAF Manston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Red Cross; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force