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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1944-07"
Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks
Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks
Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks
Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks
Tags: love and romance; RAF Bardney
Letter from Malcolm Payne to Doris Weeks
Tags: love and romance; RAF Bardney
Letter from Sergeant R.J.H. Anderson to Doris Weeks
Tags: faith; missing in action; RAF Syerston
Interview with Bert Hammond. One
Tags: 1678 HCU; 26 OTU; 514 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Boston; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Manby; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; RAF Woodbridge; training; Wellington
Letter to Doris Weeks from Royal Australian Air Force
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
George Holmes sortie record sheet 9 and 50 Squadrons
Letter to Mrs Wilson from Margaret Wright
Tags: faith; missing in action
Interview with Cecil Harry Chandler
Tags: 15 Squadron; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control caravan; crash; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF Woodbridge; sanitation; Schräge Musik; service vehicle; Stirling; training
Letter to Mrs Wilson from Kenneth Francis's father
Interview with Thomas Fisher
Letter to Mrs Wilson from mother of Sergeant Jenkins
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; missing in action
Letter to Mrs Wilson from father of Sergeant T Liddle
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; missing in action
Interview with Geoffrey Lenthall
D A MacArthur's log book extracts
Tags: 166 Squadron; aircrew; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-3; V-weapon
Interview with Frederick Joseph Keith Martin
Tags: 300 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; crewing up; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; propaganda; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Calveley; RAF Cranfield; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Sandtoft; RAF South Cerney; RAF Ternhill; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wickenby; RAF Yatesbury; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Frederick Arthur Bowman
Interview with Eric Horsham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; love and romance; Master Bomber; military living conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Ronald Bailey's flying log book
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1666 HCU; 425 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Lissett; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wombleton; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Walter John Smith’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 1661 HCU; 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
To Janet from Rupert Harwood
Tags: RAF Dunholme Lodge; V-1; V-weapon