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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Netherlands--Amsterdam"
Four newspaper cuttings
Top right - Taunton officer wins DFC. Awarded to Squadron Leader Denis Clyde-Smith. Citation…
Reminiscences of service in the Royal Air Force - 1937 to 1945
Tags: 115 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 27 OTU; 3 Group; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; forced landing; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; Magister; Me 110; military living conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Benson; RAF Farnborough; RAF Harwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marham; RAF Ringway; RAF Sealand; RAF Sywell; RAF Tangmere; RAF Weston Zoyland; Stranraer; Sunderland; Swordfish; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Walrus; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Sergeant Reginald Frederick (Roly) Roberts
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 66 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; crash; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Harrow; killed in action; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upper Heyford; recruitment; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Gen's Story
The first part of the memoir talks of the many trials Genek went through both in attempting to rejoin his Polish Air Force unit and, once the Germans overran the country, escape to England.
Ganek…
Tags: 105 Squadron; 106 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; C-47; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; ground crew; hangar; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); killed in action; love and romance; Magister; mess; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Carlisle; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Henlow; RAF Hucknall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Red Cross; searchlight; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 5; training; Wellington; wireless operator
German Air Sea Rescue Service
It is further…
Tags: 139 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Blenheim; ditching
Arthur Ward’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1651 HCU; 199 Squadron; 27 OTU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Dumfries; RAF Hixon; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lichfield; RAF North Creake; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window
Wymeswold Pilot Gets VC
Group Captain Leonard Trent VC DFC ADC
Tags: 15 Squadron; 17 OTU; 2 Group; 214 Squadron; 487 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Battle; Blenheim; Boston; Distinguished Flying Cross; Ju 88; Me 109; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Coltishall; RAF Feltwell; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Oakington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; training; Ventura; Victoria Cross
Letter to Norman Price's Mother
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; missing in action
They Didn't Come Back
Maurice Jacoby's Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book
He was stationed at RAF Benson (12 OTU), RAF Manby (1 AAS) and RAF Binbrook (142…
Bill Burnett's Biography (written by Lawrence Goodman)
Les Pickford's observers and air gunners flying log book. One
Tags: 101 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 17 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Luqa; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; York
Hugh Forth’s pilots flying log book. Two
Hastie DFC: The Life and Times of a Wartime Pilot
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 157 Squadron; 2 Group; 214 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Bismarck; Botha; C-47; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evacuation; Flying Training School; Gee; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; radar; RAF Banff; RAF Catfoss; RAF Catterick; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Farnborough; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leuchars; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF North Coates; RAF Oulton; RAF Padgate; RAF Prestwick; RAF Riccall; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Thornaby; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Windrush; RAF Woodbridge; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Amsterdam Leidseplein district and Paleis Soestdijk
The second showing a large building in open country is captioned 'Princess Juleana [Juliana] Palace'.
Tags: aerial photograph
Amsterdam and Muiden
The second page has two photographs the first shows a crowd in a city street in Belgium, the second shows five…
Douglas Wilmott Waters CPM
Tags: 214 Squadron; 3 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; Lysander; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunsfold; RAF Harwell; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Yatesbury; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Douglas Wilmott Waters - An autobiography
Tags: 214 Squadron; 3 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; Lysander; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunsfold; RAF Harwell; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Yatesbury; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Thea Colemen - my story 1940-1945
Wally Layne's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; Dominie; Gneisenau; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Lindholme; RAF Penrhos; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Scharnhorst; shot down; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Robert F Huntly’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 109 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 29 OTU; 9 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; Flying Training School; forced landing; Gee; Harrow; Lysander; Me 110; navigator; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cranage; RAF East Wretham; RAF Honington; RAF Idku; RAF Kabrit; RAF North Coates; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Prestwick; RAF Shallufa; RAF Silloth; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Evidence in Camera Vol 3 No 10
Evidence in Camera Vol 4 No 6
F A Robinson’s flying log book for pilots. One
Tags: 543 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; Flying Training School; Gneisenau; gremlin; Harvard; Lysander; Magister; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Benson; RAF Cranwell; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hendon; RAF Odiham; RAF St Eval; Scharnhorst; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington