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- Tags: RAF Coningsby
WO Donald Keith Fraser
Tags: 1 Group; 101 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 1668 HCU; aircrew; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing up; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; fear; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; intelligence officer; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; perimeter track; petrol bowser; radar; RAF Bottesford; RAF Catfoss; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Sandtoft; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; runway; searchlight; service vehicle; Tiger force; Tirpitz; tractor; training; Window; wireless operator
William Warburton Sgt Flight Engineer RAF
Tags: 101 Squadron; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; mid-air collision; navigator; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; wireless operator
William Elliot Siddle
Tags: 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
W G Didcote’s South African Air Force observer’s or air gunner’s log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1653 HCU; 1678 HCU; 17 OTU; 186 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Coningsby; RAF Manby; RAF Millom; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
VE Day Poster
Tags: 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Lancaster; Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby
V Group News, March 1944
Tags: 5 Group; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
V Group News, January 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Wainfleet; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
V Group News, April 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; radar; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
Two part interview with Bob Panton
Part 1. Bob Panton was a child during the war. One day as his father was coming towards their house Bob saw three Dornier 17 come into view. Then out of the sun came six Spitfires and a battle started in front…
Training as a flight engineer on Lancasters
To Janet from Rupert Harwood
Thomas Thomson Notice Paper
Tags: aircrew; RAF Coningsby; recruitment; wireless operator
The Kriegie March 2010
Tags: 10 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; Distinguished Service Order; Dulag Luft; escaping; evading; flight engineer; Hampden; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; Military Cross; mine laying; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF North Coates; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Northolt; Special Operations Executive; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Whitley
The Exploits of Warrant Officer Arthur Pritchard
Tags: 463 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); crash; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
The Crew
'Vic' Prettejohns replaced original Flight engineer. Underneath is annotated the crew's names and positions.…
Telegram to DJH Maltby
Telegram to Constance Cheshire from Aaron E Koota
Tags: RAF Coningsby
Syd Marshall and Grand Slam bomb
Photograph 2 is a group of people outside a building.
Tags: bombing; Grand Slam; RAF Coningsby