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- Collection: Orton, Robert
Robert Orton’s flying log book for navigator’s, air bomber’s, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 150 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 18 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Catterick; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ingham; RAF Kirkham; RAF Lindholme; RAF Newmarket; RAF Padgate; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Worksop; training; Wellington
Seven aircrew
Seven aircrew
Seven men thee sitting wearing Mae West and four standing behind wearing battledress. In the background part of an aircraft. Captioned 'Names of men in photograph of 150 Squadron at RAF Hemswell, Lincolnshire, 1944-1945, left to right…
Squadron Leader Hardwicke and Crew
Tags: 150 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Hemswell
Rear gunner in turret
Mid-upper gunner
Flight engineer in cockpit
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster
Two airmen outside a barrack block
Tags: aircrew
Seven groundcrew
Tags: ground crew; Lancaster
Robert Orton
Tags: air gunner; aircrew
Seven aircrew
Tags: aircrew
Robert Orton in rear turret
It is a Rose turret with two .50 machine guns and no perspex. Captioned 'Wednesday 24 September 2014, Sergeant Robert Orton aged 20 in the rear turret of an Avro Lancaster bomber.…
Rear gunner in turret
Two versions of the same item. On the reverse 'Bob in rear turret'.
Two men outside a barrack block
Tags: aircrew
Flight engineer in cockpit
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster
Mid-upper gunner
Seven groundcrew
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster