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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1944-08"
Spud bashing
V Group News, August 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; pilot; radar; rivalry; sport; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; wireless operator
Crashed Lancaster in field
On the reverse 'LANCASTER PO-L…
Tags: 467 Squadron; crash; forced landing; Lancaster; RAF Wittering
Man inside wing
On the reverse 'LANCASTER PO-L WITTERING AFTER RAID ON V1 STORAGE SITE TROSSY ST MAVIN AUGUST 3 1944'.
Bridge at Etaples
Bridge at Etaples
Bridge at Etaples
Bridge at Etaples
Bridge at Etaples
Bridge at Etaples
George Holmes sortie record sheet 83 Squadron
George Holmes sortie record sheet 9 and 50 Squadrons
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
Skilling's Follies
'Mid/Up No 1 John Meadows - Epping Forest
Rear/G No 2 EA McDonald - Hull
Wirless [sic] /Op No 3 HR Martin -…
Lancaster on dispersal
Tags: 50 Squadron; dispersal; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Paolo Troglio in Avignon
Tags: aircrew
Crashed Stirling
Winthorpe August 1944
Two airmen sun bathing with Nissen hut in background captioned 'Ken', 'Jim (Pilot)'.
Bomb aimers briefing 2 August 1944
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Oboe; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 3 August 1944 Joessy St Maxmin [sic]
Bomb aimers briefing 5 August 1944
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 6 August 1944
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Window