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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-06-14"
Stanley Abbott’s Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bardney; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Joseph Fear’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book for Navigators, Air Bomber, Air Gunners and Flight Engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 207 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Idwal Davies’ Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 1665 HCU; 620 Squadron; 644 Squadron; 81 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Fairford; RAF Great Dunmow; RAF Millom; RAF Qastina; RAF Sleap; RAF Tilstock; RCAF Mount Hope; RCAF Picton; Second Tactical Air Force; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Whitley
Alf Morrill's RAF Navigator’s Air Bomber’s Air Gunner’s Flight Engineer’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1652 HCU; 232 Squadron; 51 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bale out; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Leconfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; York
Story of my war
Tags: 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 95 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Ju 52; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; RAF Bardney; RAF Bridlington; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Burn; RAF Dalcross; RAF Kinloss; Stirling; submarine; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
John Waugh’s Royal Australian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 27 OTU; 467 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAAF Lowood; RAAF Narrandera; RAF Fairoaks; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kidlington; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lulsgate Bottom; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Sunderland; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
James Douglas Crew's log book
Tags: 142 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 242 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 82 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bircotes; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Coltishall; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Gamston; RAF Jurby; RAF Lyneham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Millom; RAF Netheravon; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ossington; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; York
This is ridiculous - we should bale out
Tags: 1667 HCU; 550 Squadron; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Hemswell; RAF Madley; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Staverton; training; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
John Elliott’s Royal Air Force Flying Log Book and commissioning scrolls
Trained as a wireless operator with No. 4 Radio School, No. 6 Advanced Flying Unit, 83 Operational Training Unit, 1667 Heavy Conversion Unit and No. 1…
Tags: 1667 HCU; 550 Squadron; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Dominie; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Fw 190; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; promotion; RAF Carew Cheriton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Madley; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
George Cook’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 205 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Catalina; Hampden; Hornet Moth; Lancaster; mine laying; Oxford; RAF Alness; RAF Carew Cheriton; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Koggala; RAF Oban; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; Sunderland; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
9 Squadron handwritten Operation Record Book. Two
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bardney; tactical support for Normandy troops
Last of the Tail Gun Charlies - Biography of Warrant Officer Ronald Carter's (1620578 Royal Air Force)
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; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator / air gunner
Le Havre docks
It is captioned '688KLS 14/6/44//8" 20,000' -->H. H625'
On the…
Alan Holman’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 192 Squadron; 21 OTU; 54 OTU; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; Blenheim; Boston; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Lancaster; Lincoln; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Defford; RAF Evanton; RAF Foulsham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Staverton; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; York
John Francis Bank's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Douglas 'Hank' Iveson's pilot's flying log books. One
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 1669 HCU; 19 OTU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-26; B-29; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Flying Training School; Gneisenau; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 109; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Driffield; RAF Finningley; RAF Gaydon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kinloss; RAF Langar; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lissett; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upavon; Scharnhorst; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Whitley; York
William Fisher Martin’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; ditching; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RCAF Rivers; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Len Curtis' Flying Log Book
Served at RAF Dumfries, RAF…
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Letter to Lewis Ellis from his mother
Tags: promotion
Keith Hailey's Royal Air Force navigator’s, air bombers and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 20 OTU; 24 OTU; 433 Squadron; 635 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Downham Market; RAF Elgin; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manby; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Alfred Sweeney’s RAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book
He was stationed at RAF…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1653 HCU; 1669 HCU; 216 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-29; bombing; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 7; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Meteor; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Aqir; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Carlisle; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Kabrit; RAF Langar; RAF Lyneham; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Syerston; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Watton; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Shackleton; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Phillip Matthews' Royal Air Force navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 29 OTU; 61 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Kenneth Adams - navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1679 HCU; 408 Squadron; 82 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 109; Me 410; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Andreas; RAF Gamston; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Ossington; RAF Wombleton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Shot Down, He took part in French Resistance raids on Germans
[The details in the article are incorrect. His aircraft was a Wellington, it was shot down on…
K A L Killeen’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 83 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Feltwell; RAF Peplow; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington