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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Tunisia"
To war in a Wimpy - the life and times of Flight Sergeant Ron Williams RAF
Chapter 1 - early life, enlistment and training.
Chapter 2 - operational training. Describes activities during training OTU including naming his crew and flying out to…
Tags: 150 Squadron; 205 Group; 21 OTU; 216 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; Boston; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; hangar; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Padgate; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wigtown; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with James Douglas Hudson
Feathered engine
On the reverse -
'Feathered
Starboard outer engine
Over the Med
2/46
going to land at El [Aouina] Tunis
Inspection. On our way to Al Caire'.
Tags: Lancaster
Ocean Daily News, 29 June 1943
Herbert Ashton Clark's pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 11 OTU; 215 Squadron; 37 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-26; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Harrow; Harvard; Lysander; Magister; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bramcote; RAF Digby; RAF Driffield; RAF El Adem; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Manston; RAF Shallufa; RAF Silloth; training; Wellington
Elizabethan News
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
Bernard Ross' observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 1665 HCU; 296 Squadron; 297 Squadron; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Blenheim; Halifax; Hamilcar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Earls Colne; RAF Hurn; RAF Penrhos; RAF Seighford; RAF Thruxton; RAF Tilstock; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Edward Stewart's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 104 Squadron; 21 OTU; 28 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Flying Training School; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Kabrit; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Luqa; RAF Lyneham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Sywell; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Zaghouan Aqueduct, Cathedral of St Vincent de Paul in Tunis, Swimming Pool, Camp and Rural Views
#1 is the Zaghouan Aqueduct crossing a road.
#2 is the Cathedral of St Vincent de Paul in Tunis with palm trees in front.
#3 is a swimming pool with many spectators.
#4 is an empty street with washing on a line…
Tags: sport
Ron Riding's Royal Canadian Air Force observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 242 Squadron; 52 Squadron; Air Observers School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; bale out; Battle; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Cook’s tour; evading; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Lancaster; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blida; RAF Dishforth; RAF Lindholme; RAF Northolt; RAF Oakington; RCAF Caron; RCAF Rivers; Second Tactical Air Force; shot down; Stirling; submarine; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
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
German War Over
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
People, aircraft, and places
Top right - two airmen wearing khaki shirt and shorts sitting on a wall. The man on the…
Tags: 37 Squadron; aircrew; Wellington
205 Group Royal Air Force Battle Honours
The memoir of Eric William Scott
Tags: 142 Squadron; 205 Group; 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; Flying Training School; Harvard; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Blida; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Kairouan; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Watchfield; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; Stearman; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
W M Ballantyne pilot's flying log book
Tags: 1652 HCU; 20 OTU; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); C-47; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Feltwell; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Torquay; RAF Valley; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Brian Southwell's log book. One
Sam Saunders's flying log book
Tags: 128 Squadron; 15 OTU; 16 OTU; 216 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 627 Squadron; 692 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Hudson; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Graveley; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Shallufa; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wyton; RCAF Rivers; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Sam Saunders 627 Squadron
A the end of 1943 he returned to Bomber Command, 627 Squadron.
There is a photograph of the squadron grouped in front of a Mosquito.
Sam Saunders in Egypt
Photos 1, 2 and 3 are scenes from Cairo.
Photo 4 is a side head and shoulders profile of Sam.
Photo 5 is a Battle aircraft in…
Letter from Douglas Hudson to his parents
Tags: prisoner of war
Letter to Mrs Hudson from Red Cross
Tags: prisoner of war; Red Cross