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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942-05-30"
'Reaping the whirlwind'
1000 bomber raid on Cologne
1000 bomber raids
15 Squadron Wyton, 1651 HCU Waterbeach and 214 Squadron operations
Account of German witness to crash of John Valentines aircraft
Bill Bailey's Cadet's Flight Log
Tags: Tiger Moth; training
Citation for award of Victoria Cross to Flying Officer Leslie Thomas Manser
Cologne
Cologne operation
Denis Clyde-Smith's pilot's flying logbook. One
Tags: 115 Squadron; 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Hurricane; Lysander; Magister; operational training unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Farnborough; RAF Harwell; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marham; RAF Ringway; RAF Weston Zoyland; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; training; Walrus; Wellington
Dennis Raettig's wartime memoir
Tags: 104 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; animal; B-24; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; incendiary device; mechanics engine; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Driffield; RAF East Moor; RAF Harwell; RAF Leeming; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; runway; service vehicle; take-off crash; tractor; training; Wellington; Whitley
Ernest Smith's pilot’s flying log book. One
Flying Officer Leslie Thomas Manser, Victoria Cross
G Cruickshank Memoir
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Abingdon; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
George Alexander Mackie’s pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; He 111; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; love and romance; Magister; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Cranfield; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
George Ellams, Flying Log book
Gordon Cruickshank life on squadrons 1940-1944
Tags: 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Pathfinders; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
H W Bennett’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book. One
Tags: 214 Squadron; 88 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Boston; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; navigator; observer; operational training unit; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Feltwell; RAF Lichfield; RAF North Coates; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Tilstock; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Reg Dunbar
John Valentine's observers and air gunners flying log book
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 Ursula Valentine to her husbands pilot's father
Letter informing Ursula Valentine that her husband is missing
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; navigator