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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943"
Harold Bratley service record
William Hugh Anthony Jackson's Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. One
Tags: 105 Squadron; 17 OTU; 23 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; Boston; Botha; Defiant; Flying Training School; Ju 88; Lysander; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Carlisle; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Luqa; RAF Pershore; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Upavon; RAF Upwood; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
William Hugh Anthony Jackson's Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Two
Tags: 15 OTU; 23 OTU; 232 Squadron; 355 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bale out; bombing; C-47; Defiant; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lysander; Martinet; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Kolar; RAF Palam; RAF Pershore; RAF Salbani; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Sergeant McMahon's address book
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war
Woman with a donkey at Skegness
Tags: animal
Eric Sinclair’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 11 OTU; 35 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); C-47; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Magister; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Fraserburgh; RAF Gamston; RAF Graveley; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lichfield; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Meir; RAF Oakley; RAF Ossington; RAF Silloth; RAF Warboys; RAF Westcott; RCAF Penhold; training; Wellington; Whitley
My private war with Hitler's Gremlins
Douglas Ross Arrowsmith’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 21 OTU; 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
John 'Jack' Percy Whymark's sercice record
Archibald Steele’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Grantham; RAF Metheringham; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF woodley; RCAF Brandon; RCAF Penhold; RCAF Virden; Tiger Moth; training
M Stratton personnel file document
Tags: 578 Squadron; 76 Squadron; RAF Pocklington; RAF Snaith
Last of the Tail Gun Charlies - Ronald Carter's Biography
At the age of 17, Ronald volunteered to join the Royal Air Force in November 1942. After basic training, Ronald was selected for gunnery and wireless operator training, becoming…
Tags: 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Caterpillar Club; crewing up; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); prisoner of war; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Ringway; RAF Waddington; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Terry Lloyd
Tags: air sea rescue; animal; ground personnel; training
Interview with Bertie Salvage
Interview with Charles Avey
Interview with Wilf Keyte
Tags: ground personnel; RAF Henlow; RAF Swinderby
Interview with Peter Scoley
Peter spent most of his life in and around farming near RAF Metheringham, which he…
Conversation with Hamish Mahaddie
Hamish Mahaddie, the recruiter for the Pathfinder Force recalls the life of Ian Willoughby Bazalgette VC who plagued him weekly for the opportunity to join the Pathfinders. He had been posted…