Browse Items (14 total)
- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1943-08-29"
Interview with Colin Deverell
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; H2S; Lancaster; Me 110; Mosquito; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wratting Common; recruitment; Resistance; searchlight; Stirling; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Letter to prisoner of war John Valentine from his wife Ursula
Flight Engineer's Examinations
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; Stirling
Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley 149542 VR biography
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bramcote; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Mepal; RAF Paignton; RAF Pocklington; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Windrush; RAF Winthorpe; recruitment; shot down; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Letter from Roy Ellis to his Wife
Eulogy for Philip Jenkinson
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; evading; Halifax; memorial; prisoner of war; shot down; training
Eulogy for Philip Jenkinson
Describes early life, joining the RAF, training and joining 10 Squadron as mid-upper gunner on Halifax. Was shot down during operation to Munich on 6/7 September 1943. After evading was capture and prisoner of war until April 1945. Goes…
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; evading; Halifax; memorial; prisoner of war; shot down; training
The lucky crew
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; military living conditions; mine laying; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; training; 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; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); 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
Eric Scott's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Alexander Francis Dowding’s flight engineer’s flying log book
Tags: 1664 HCU; 424 Squadron; 428 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; missing in action; RAF Leeming; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Skipton on Swale; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training
F Williamson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 85 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Morpeth; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington