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- Collection: Cooke, William
William H Cooke’s navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
'On the Way'
Tags: demobilisation
Christmas Dinner menu 1946
Christmas Dinner menu Sergeants Mess 1946
Tags: mess; military living conditions
Der Bolschewismus droht
Tags: propaganda
Flying Clothing Card
Service and Release Book
Audio memoir
Tags: 28 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; C-47; Spitfire
'A Day at East Kirkby'
Photograph of air gunner sergeant
Tags: air gunner; aircrew
Two servicemen
Tags: aircrew
Interview with William Cooke
Tells of his spell of guard duty on board a troop ship, and losing one of the people he was showing…
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bomb struck; crash; demobilisation; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; radar; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; training; Wellington