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Halifax bomber tour
Interview with Geoff Paine
Tags: 100 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cornell; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Flying Training School; Harvard; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Oxford; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Ansty; RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Kirton in Lindsey; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lyneham; RAF Oakington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Valley; recruitment; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Philip Batty's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 1661 HCU; 1665 HCU; 297 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 85 OTU; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; C-47; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Dumfries; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Madley; RAF Silverstone; RAF Staverton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Tarrant Rushton; RAF Weathersfield; RAF Winthorpe; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Harold James Richards
Interview with Lester Simms
A large group of airmen by the side of a building
Tags: training
Clifford Watson in tropical dress wth a Tiger Moth
Tags: Tiger Moth; training
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 Bircotes; RAF Blida; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Greenock; RAF Handforth; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kairouan; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Donald Baker's war time story taken from letters which he wrote to his mother in Rhodesia
Tags: RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Paignton; training
List of letters
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: sport
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
Letter from Donald Baker to his mother
Tags: training
D A Robinson’s pilot’s flying log book
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 21 OTU; 26 OTU; 28 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Grantham; RAF Lissett; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Mount Hampden; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wing; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Thomas Other Prickett’s pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 103 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 5 BFTS; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-26; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); British Flying Training School Program; C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Mosquito; Oxford; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hullavington; RAF Kumalo; RAF Lindholme; RAF Netheravon; RAF Sealand; RAF Sywell; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
J H Bird’s pilots flying log book. One
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
John L Kennedy’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 192 Squadron; 20 OTU; 26 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Martinet; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; radar; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Kumalo; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF South Cerney; RAF Torquay; RAF Wing; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
My Life in the RAF - chapter 4 (F Dunn)
My life in the RAF - chapter 5 (F Dunn)
Transcript of My life in the RAF
Three Telegram Forms
The first to Induna from Thornhill advises that Moth D623 arrived.
The second to Thornhill and Cranborne from Induna advises that three Wellingtons left for Cranborne then Thornhill.
The third to Thornhill and…
Tags: Tiger Moth; training; Wellington