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- Collection: Edgar, Alfred George
Pilot Officer AG Edgar DFC
Recommendation for Honours and Awards (Immediate)
Alan Edgar's Operations
Tags: 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 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 Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Woodbridge; V-1; V-weapon
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
23 Operational Training Unit RAF Upavon
Tags: 23 OTU; aircrew; Operational Training Unit; RAF Upavon; training
12 Airmen
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; Lancaster
Allan Millard and Bob Brooks
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; observer
RAF Football Team
Tags: aircrew; ground personnel; sport
Six Airmen
'L to R
Back Row
Harry Bamforth "Smudge" Smith (Ron) Fred Outwin
Taffy, Nobby Red
A. Able Ground Crew
49 Fiskerton'.
Six Airmen in Fancy Dress
Tags: aircrew; entertainment
Alan Edgar and his crew
'Left to Right
Bob the Navigator
Don the Rear Gunner
Allan the Air Bomber
Johnny the Mid Upper Gunner
Rid the Wireless Op
Myself'.
A second…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Two Lancasters
Lancaster in Flight
Tags: Lancaster
Aerial view of Nova Scotia countryside
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; training