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No 73 Course Picton 1943
Tags: aircrew; RCAF Picton; training
Letter from Idwal Davies to his parents
Tags: aircrew; RCAF Picton; training
List of Operations
Idwal Davies’ Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 1665 HCU; 620 Squadron; 644 Squadron; 81 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Fairford; RAF Great Dunmow; RAF Millom; RAF Qastina; RAF Sleap; RAF Tilstock; RCAF Mount Hope; RCAF Picton; Second Tactical Air Force; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Whitley
Frank Truswell's service history
E A Denman’s flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 11 OTU; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 227 Squadron; 57 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; RAF Balderton; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Manby; RAF Millom; RAF Silverstone; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Westcott; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
Bill Foskett’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot (Log Book 3)
Tags: 15 OTU; 1657 HCU; 214 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Harwell; RAF Millom; RAF Sculthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window
Bill Foskett Biography - Chapter Three
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
Bill Foskett Biography - Chapter One
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
Dennis Oldman's flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Grand Slam; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Penrhos; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
JA Dellow's Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 1654 HCU; 19 OTU; 44 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Blenheim; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Forres; RAF Kinloss; RAF Manby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington; Whitley
H K M Algar’s flying log book for aircrew other than pilots. One
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Penrhos; RAF Shallufa; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
People and places
Top middle - view down a path towards the courthouse Picton, Ontario.
Top right - view across Picton Harbour with boats at near bank and trees on far…
Tags: training
Picton Ontario
Top middle - view of airfield buildings with control tower in distance on left.
Top right - various buildings.
Bottom left - view looking up of ab aircraft at height.
Bottom…
Tags: training
Course photograph
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; training
61 Course photograph
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; training