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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1944-07-18"
George Bilton - observers and air gunners log book
Tags: 156 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1659 HCU; 1664 HCU; 29 OTU; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Croft; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
H Adams memoir - training and operations
Tags: 1660 HCU; 27 OTU; 467 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; Gee; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Lichfield; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Mona; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Harry Parkins' flight engineer log book
Tags: 148 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 199 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-3; V-weapon
Harry Thomas Ansell's flying log book for flight engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Stockport; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Harry Whittaker's flying log book
Tags: 148 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 17 OTU; 19 OTU; 35 Squadron; 635 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crash; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Halifax; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Magister; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Downham Market; RAF Dumfries; RAF Graveley; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; Whitley
Henry Pollock’s navigator’s, air bombers and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1663 HCU; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); C-47; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Martinet; Meteor; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Andreas; RAF Breighton; RAF Feltwell; RAF Rufforth; RAF Stanton Harcourt; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Whitley
Herbert Davy's log book
Tags: 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morpeth; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wymeswold; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Herbert Gray's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 49 Squadron; aircrew; 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); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; 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
Homer Lawson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 19 OTU; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Llandwrog; Raf Mauripur; RAF Melbourne; RAF Penrhos; RAF Rufforth; training; Wellington; Whitley
J Flint's RAF pilot’s flying log book. Two
J G B Burnside navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 1661 HCU; 619 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; RAF Balderton; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; training
J R Davies’ Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 166 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); forced landing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Staverton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
J.C. Cockram’s RCAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF West Freugh; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
James Gordon Bennet (Lucky Jim) Burnside - biography
Part 2 - war service of Flying Officer James Gordon Bennett Burnside flight engineer. Covers training as flight engineer. Then follows short descriptions. listing…
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Mosquito; RAF Balderton; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
Jim Tease’s pilots flying log book
John Firth's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 50 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
John Francis Bank's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
John Thorp's list of operations
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
K Watson’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book. One
Tags: 120 Squadron; 1665 HCU; 44 Squadron; 620 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Fairford; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leicester East; RAF Leuchars; RAF Lindholme; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Lancasters lined up on perimeter track
Last of the Tail Gun Charlies - Ronald Carter's Biography
At the age of 17, Ronald volunteered to join the Royal Air Force in November 1942. After basic training, Ronald was selected for gunnery and wireless operator training, becoming…
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; wireless operator / air gunner
Len Manning’s navigator’s air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 21 OTU; 57 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; evading; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; shot down; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington