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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-08"
Falaise Gap
Tags: bombing
Palmer V.C pathfinder fact sheet
Tags: 105 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; killed in action; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Feltwell; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mildenhall; shot down; Victoria Cross; Wellington
Record of service, education and professional qualifications
Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
The Best Photographs for the Month of August
Sgt Bird, Sgt Boulton, Sgt Bentley, Sgt Dean, Sgt Beckett.
Testimony of resistance fighters
They had been warned by an English airman that the SS were going to carry out shootings and found refuge on 25th August. They were liberated on 29th August. The SS shot eight Resistance fighters and…
Tags: final resting place; Lancaster; lynching; Resistance
Henry Sturrock's, air and ground crew
Henry Sturrock's crew and six ground crew in front of a Halifax. The pilot is holding a small dog.
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Four Airmen
Tags: 100 Group; 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; RAF Oulton; wireless operator