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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-04-10"
Correspondence concerning commission, award of Distinguished flying cross and list of operations carried out
Sydney Grimes' observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1661 HCU; 1668 HCU; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator
David Donaldson's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 100 Group; 149 Squadron; 15 OTU; 156 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 192 Squadron; 57 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Flying Training School; Gee; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Lancaster; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Evanton; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Warboys; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wyton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Albert Edward Edmunds’ pilots flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 27 OTU; 30 OTU; 608 Squadron; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; B-25; bombing; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Barford St John; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Downham Market; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hixon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Prestwick; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington
Clarence Hughes’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 19 OTU; 20 OTU; 21 OTU; 427 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Croft; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Millom; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Topcliffe; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Clarence Hughes observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 19 OTU; 20 OTU; 21 OTU; 427 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Croft; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Millom; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Torquay; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Ronald Carpenter’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 100 Group; 102 Squadron; 12 OTU; 223 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Martinet; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cranwell; RAF Evanton; RAF Manby; RAF Melbourne; RAF Oulton; RAF Pocklington; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley
Wally Layne's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; Dominie; Gneisenau; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Lindholme; RAF Penrhos; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; shot down; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Gordon Babbage's navigator's air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 100 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 1667 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Defiant; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; Pathfinders; RAF Driffield; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Grimsby; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; training; Whitley
Fred Richardson's log book. Two
Gordon Dennett's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 15 OTU; 196 Squadron; 298 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; bale out; bomb aimer; Botha; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Driffield; RAF Evanton; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
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
Details from log book of Henry Townsley DFM
Tags: 15 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Ju 88; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Woodhall Spa
Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Tags: prisoner of war; sanitation; Stalag Luft 3
Postcard to John Taplin's Parents from John
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Stalag 8B
Four newspaper cuttings
Bottom left - Airman to wed airman's widow. Alex Henshaw (test pilot) to wed widow of Count de Chateaubrun killed eight months after wedding in December 1937.…
Tags: B-24; bombing; crash; love and romance; propaganda
Arthur Woolf record of service
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Barford St John; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; training; wireless operator
Clifford and Dot's wedding photographs
Bottom left - full length image of an airman wearing flying jacket, helmet and goggles leaning against the…
Tags: aircrew; love and romance