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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1945-04-18"
Gresse Church Chronicle Extract
In the second part he describes damage to the cemetery during a bombardment from the other…
Tom Tobin's crew
Helgoland
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Selection board interview information form
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; C-47; Halifax; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Seighford; Wellington
RAF Wipe Out Heligoland 'Exercise'
Heligoland
Extracts from 195 Squadron Operations Record book covering John Brittain's operations
Heligoland
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Helgoland
12 airmen waving off a Lancaster
Heligoland under attack
Tom Whitehead's Wartime log for British prisoners
Interview with David Griffin
Pilot - face to face
Tags: 625 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Gneisenau; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; love and romance; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Blyton; RAF Cranwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Leuchars; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF Silloth; RAF St Eval; RAF Watchfield; RAF Worksop; Scharnhorst; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Malcolm Staves' Wireless Operators Log Book
Tags: 207 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Spilsby; wireless operator
Letter from John Brittain to his mother
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; 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; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Ju 88; 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; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; 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
Interview with Archie Weir
List of operations and aircraft lost
Charles Flint's Royal Air Force Flying Log Book for Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s, Air Gunner’s and Flight Engineer’s
Tags: 115 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1651 HCU; 178 Squadron; 70 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Graveley; RAF Madley; RAF Shallufa; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Warboys; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; Wellington; wireless operator
R B Hatherly’s Royal Australian Air Force observer’s, air gunner’s and W/T operators flying log book
P R Taylor’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Norman Long's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1662 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; training; Wellington
Donald Evans RAF navigator’s, air bomber’s, air gunner’s and flight engineer’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 83 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bridlington; RAF Coningsby; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Metheringham; RAF Snaith; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Warboys; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training