Browse Items (18 total)
- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-06-18"
Letter to Ron Riding's Parents from F/Sgt Whitehead
[only one page of the letter is present]
Tags: aircrew; missing in action; RAF Northolt
F T Jones’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 420 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Wombleton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Montdidier, Edward King's 17th operation of his tour
Bill Eyles observer's and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 35 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Halifax; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Dumfries; RAF Graveley; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Warboys; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Whitley
John Robert Watson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Memoire of trip to France and events after D-Day
Letter to Henry Simpson's father
Tags: RAF Kirmington
William Holmes' Royal Canadian Air Force pilot's flying log book
Tags: 149 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; heavy conversion unit; mine laying; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bowden; RAF Estevan; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Methwold; RAF Morecambe; RAF Northolt; RAF Shawbury; RAF Syerston; RAF Wratting Common; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Ronald G Britt’s navigator’s air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wymeswold; Sunderland; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Interview with Thomas Edward Noton
Jim Allen’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 578 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; pilot; RAF Banff; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Burn; RAF Estevan; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Rufforth; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Interview with William Holmes
Tags: 149 Squadron; 3 Group; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; forced landing; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); mine laying; navigator; operational training unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Estevan; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Methwold; RAF Wratting Common; Resistance; Stearman; Stirling; training
Operations order 17 June 1944
Operations order 18 June 1944
Bomb aimers briefing 18 June 1944
New crew initial drill and flying check list
Tags: 44 Squadron; RAF Dunholme Lodge
Herbert Gray's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 49 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Stradishall; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-3; V-weapon