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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1941"
Kenneth Munro Steven's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 81 OTU; 97 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lysander; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bourn; RAF Perth; RAF Sleap; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tilstock; RAF Watchfield; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Michael Peel interview. Two
Harold Bratley service record
Jack Whalley’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 521 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Botha; crash; Defiant; Halifax; Hampden; Hudson; Ju 88; Mosquito; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Docking; RAF Fairoaks; RAF Penrhos; RAF Shawbury; RAF Squires Gate; RAF Thornaby; reconnaissance photograph; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
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
Overseas life
Tags: 105 Squadron; 110 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 203 Squadron; 37 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 70 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; crash; ditching; evacuation; Hurricane; incendiary device; killed in action; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; observer; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Evanton; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Yatesbury; searchlight; Swordfish; Wellington
In Malta
Bottom: A Wellington on the ground in a rocky…
Tags: aircrew; Wellington
Harrison Sproates’ Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 13 OTU; 178 Squadron; 244 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Blenheim; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Hudson; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Pembrey; RAF Shandur; RAF Sharjah; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Jack in desert uniform
Tags: air gunner; aircrew
John 'Jack' Percy Whymark's sercice record
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
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
Bob Butler in uniform with crew at RAF Waterbeach
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
Propaganda leaflets
Middle, left report of an aircraft landing on a car.
Middle centre, woman holding a baby, reports of engagements and births of babies.
Bottom left, report of the death of Lieutenant Geoffrey William…
Interview with Bertie Salvage
Interview with Basil Fish
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…
Itinerary
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No…
Tags: ground personnel; training