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Service record John Henry (Jack) Thomas
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 21 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Hullavington; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Dennis Moore Autobiography
Tags: 12 OTU; 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 5 Group; 52 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; 82 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; C-47; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; flight engineer; Gee; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Master Bomber; memorial; mess; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Catterick; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Farnborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honington; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Shawbury; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Stradishall; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wigtown; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Shackleton; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; York
The war - training
Book 5, Return to UK
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 1678 HCU; 196 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 30 OTU; 514 Squadron; 623 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Catalina; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fear; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Seighford; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Red Cross; sanitation; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Book 2, Commencing my Flying Training and my Adventures up till the time of Leaving England
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; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Ronald G Britt’s navigator’s air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 28 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wymeswold; Sunderland; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington