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Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Three
The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.
Tags: 100 Group; 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Honington; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Oulton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Shipdham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodbridge; Stearman; Stirling; superstition; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Two
Urban scenes
The photograph on the top right of the left page shows three men sitting on bunk beds in an accommodation hut.
The photograph on the bottom right of the left…
Ontario views
The photograph on the right of the left page shows an aerial view of the…
Tags: aerial photograph; training
Ontario views
The photograph on the top right of the left page shows an aerial view of Picton airfield with a runway in the background. A wing of an aircraft can be…
Tags: aerial photograph; perimeter track; runway
School sports and an aerial view of Goderich
Tags: aerial photograph; sport; training
Robert Wilfred Hawkes' training photographs
#1 a group of trainees arranged in four rows, captioned ' 'C' flight ISQD 13 ITW Torquay (1943)'
#2 is a head and shoulders portrait of Robert Wilfred Hawkes with a trainees cap.
#3 is three trainee airmen standing…
Tags: aircrew; Bolingbroke; hangar; Initial Training Wing; RAF Torquay; training
Three Ansons in formation
Tags: Anson
Port Albert airfield
Tags: aerial photograph; Anson; hangar; taxiway
Bridge across Maitland River
Tags: aerial photograph
South Maitland River
Tags: aerial photograph
Tiger Moth, Cessna Bobcat and Ottawa
#1 is a Tiger Moth in flight, banking.
#2 is the church of the Good Shepherd at Caron, Saskatchewan.
#3 is a Cessna Bobcat coming in to land.
#4 is the House of Commons of Canada taken from Wellington Street.
#5…
Tags: Tiger Moth
Four Airmen
#1 is a pilot at the controls of an aircraft.
#2 is four airmen leaning against a wooden railway building. Above is a sign for Priceville.
Tags: aircrew; military service conditions; pilot; training
Acton Ontario Cenotaph
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; memorial