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Reg Woolgar's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; crash; ditching; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Hudson; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Martinet; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Foulsham; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Manby; RAF Peterborough; RAF Scampton; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Interview with Ian Denver
interview with Oliver Gomersal
Tags: 621 Squadron; aircrew; navigator; submarine; Wellington
Halifax bomber tour
Interview with Roy Monk
Interview with Charles Beecher
Tags: 578 Squadron; ground personnel; RAF Bourn; RAF Cranwell; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Interview with Doug Taylor
Tags: 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; RAF East Kirkby; training
Interview with Harry Hacker
Tags: 40 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Nissen hut; Red Cross; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Alan Jury
Interview with Walter Raymond Stevenson
Interview with Clifford Watson. Two
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Catalina; Ju 88; RAF Farnborough; RAF Horsham St Faith; training
Michael James Beetham’s pilots flying log book. Two
B Openshaw sight log book
Celebration dinner for winners of Nairobi Sub Area Cup January 1946
Front - lists an eleven-man team, three reserves, football officer and football committee. Includes three signatures. On the right a menu for a meal.
On the reverse - left side a list of…
Tags: sport
Large group of airmen in front of a Hudson
Sticker on back of photograph 'This photograph must not be reproduced without the written…
Tags: Hudson; RAF Eastleigh
Royal Air Force Officers' party
Sticker on back of photograph 'This photograph must not be reproduced without the written permission of…
Tags: entertainment; RAF Eastleigh
Officers' dance
Sticker on back of photograph 'This photograph must not be reproduced without the written permission of the Air Officer…
Tags: entertainment; RAF Eastleigh
Group of airmen in front of a Hudson
Sticker on back of photograph 'This photograph must not be reproduced…
Tags: Hudson; RAF Eastleigh
Edward Key’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 1657 HCU; 514 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bridlington; RAF Burn; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; training
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force