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Sam Saunder's Operations
Photo 1 is a vertical aerial photograph partly obscured by tracer fire.
Photo 2 is the 40 squadron crest.
Photo 3 is Sam in shorts and tee shirt in front of a…
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Pilot to Navigator - Where are we?
Tags: 100 Group; 4 Group; 425 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; evading; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; military service conditions; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cosford; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Manston; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Sunderland; target indicator; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
People places and aircraft
Top middle - Five aircrew wearing khaki uniform standing in front of the fuselage of an aircraft. Captioned 'Crew with…
Tags: aircrew; B-24; wireless operator
Parachute troops deep in Tunisia, German defeat in central Caucasus and Union Jack hoisted in Tobruk
P R Taylor’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Observer's and air gunner's flying log book for Geoffrey Gosney. One
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1664 HCU; 227 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Battle; bombing; Defiant; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Halifax Mk 7; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Aqir; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Dishforth; RAF Fairford; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lyneham; Stirling; training
Nos Aviations
Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck describes large composition and successes of RAF during 1943 whilst underlining the threat still posed by Germany.
Les machines
Maintains Anglo-American aircraft production is four times…
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; B-17; B-24; B-25; B-26; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Boston; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Mosquito; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; propaganda; reconnaissance photograph; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; target indicator; training; Typhoon; York
Newspaper cuttings
Left - headlines 'Lincoln flight sergeant is prisoner of war'. Gives some details of family.
Middle, two cuttings concerning news that Scott was promoted and to his Air Training Corps Squadron that he was prisoner of war.…
Tags: aircrew; B-24; bomb aimer; faith; prisoner of war; Wellington
Misurata North Africa
Five photographs, first is of Jack, rifle slung over shoulder, tin hat on, standing on a rocky outcrop, desert background. Captioned, 'Misurata, North…
Menu - 462, 76 and 10 Squadrons
Tags: 10 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 76 Squadron
Ken Souter's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 43 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; Boston; C-47; Dominie; Flying Training School; Harvard; Hurricane; Ju 52; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-40; pilot; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Ansty; RAF Aston Down; RAF Evanton; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
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…
Joseph Wilson's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; 624 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Me 109; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Tempsford; training; Wellington
Jack Jarmy's Photographs 1951
Photo 1 and 2 are captioned 'Negombo - Ceylon'.
Photo 1 is a riverside with canoes.
Photo 2 is a European man in shorts with six native boys, one on a bike.
Photo 3 is a street with palm trees, captioned 'Tripoli -…
Tags: aircrew