Browse Items (52 total)
- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942-05-30"
Frank Williamson’s RAF pilot’s flying log book. One
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 1658 HCU; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Dalton; RAF Desford; RAF Leeming; RAF Melbourne; RAF Riccall; RAF Shawbury; RAF Topcliffe; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
James Inward's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 35 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Burn; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Riccall; RAF St Athan; training
Bob Butler's Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book
Served at RAF Jurby, RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Newmarket, RAF Waterbeach, RAF…
Tags: 11 OTU; 218 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; Hampden; Ju 88; Me 110; missing in action; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Jurby; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Newmarket; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Phillip Ward’s Royal Canadian Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book.
Tags: 1656 HCU; 20 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Catalina; Dominie; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lossiemouth; RCAF Calgary; RCAF Mossbank; Tiger Moth; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Reg Dunbar
Letter from John Valentine to father of his pilot
Letter from John Valentine to the father of his pilot
Letter from the caterpillar club
Tags: Caterpillar Club
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Two newspaper cuttings
Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Halifax; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; Tirpitz; V-1; V-weapon
A memoir of life in the WAAF during the war
Tags: 105 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 2 Group; 427 Squadron; 429 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Leeming; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter from Ursula Valentine to her husbands pilot's father
Flying Officer Leslie Thomas Manser, Victoria Cross
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
Cologne
Over 1,000 bomber raid Cologne
1000 bomber raid on Cologne
Cologne operation
'Reaping the whirlwind'
1000 bomber raids
Letter to Ursula Valentine from RAF Scampton
Account of German witness to crash of John Valentines aircraft
Telegram to Ursula Valentine
Tags: 49 Squadron; missing in action
15 Squadron Wyton, 1651 HCU Waterbeach and 214 Squadron operations
British propaganda leaflet
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.