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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-03"
460 Squadron photograph
Two further…
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster
Interview with Colin Fraser
Tags: 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crash; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Fairoaks; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF West Freugh; searchlight; shot down; superstition; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
No. 2 Wireless School
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Biography of Kenneth Gill by son Derek
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Grand Slam; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 262; memorial; navigator; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Book 4, Continuing my Overseas Training
Book 5, Return to UK
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 1678 HCU; 196 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 30 OTU; 514 Squadron; 623 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Catalina; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fear; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Seighford; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Red Cross; sanitation; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Extracts from war diaries and information on aircraft crews and lists of bombing operations
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 28 OTU; 4 Group; 466 Squadron; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mess; military living conditions; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Wymeswold; searchlight; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Letter from Jack Darby to Jean
Tags: aircrew; RAF Hunmanby Moor; training
Letter from Dec Dexter to Phyllis Dexter
Keith Thompson's diary July 1942 to July 1943
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Greetings Telegram from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war
Interview with Richard Suchenwirth
My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
Trevor Saint diary/memoir
Tags: 514 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); ground crew; ground personnel; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Brackla; RAF Cardington; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halton; RAF Henlow; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-2; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
William Holmes memoir - training in Canada
Tags: Anson; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; training
Walter Morris - 1939/45 War Record
Tags: 166 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bomb struck; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military ethos; military living conditions; mine laying; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Kirkham; RAF Kirmington; RAF Manby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wittering; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Letter from Bill Akrill to Harry
Letter from Bill Akrill to Ros
Tags: aircrew; navigator; RAF East Wretham