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- Collection: Horry, Margaret
Interview with Margaret Horry
Tags: 106 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; grief; killed in action; memorial; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Metheringham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Wickenby; Tirpitz; wireless operator
Gordon Prescott’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Dominie; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wickenby; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator
The Crew
'Vic' Prettejohns replaced original Flight engineer. Underneath is annotated the crew's names and positions.…
Telegrams awarding Arthur Horry the Distinguished Flying Medal
Recommendation for Immediate Award
Flight Sergeant N G Prescott
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; crash; Halifax; Lancaster; missing in action; pilot; Wellington; wireless operator
The Horry Brothers Memoir
There is a short memoir about Frank and a longer memoir about Freddie.
There are three stories about different operations.
Day Operations 15th September 1944 Tirpitz
Tags: 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; Tirpitz
Arthur Horry's Record Sheet
Frank Horry's Record Sheet
Frank Horry's Record of Service
Bob Kenneth Precott's Wedding
Tags: love and romance
30 Operational Training Unit Hixon and 10 Air Gunnery School Walney Island
Photo 2 is a group of 65 airmen arranged in five rows, captioned '10 AGS Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness 3-12-44
Photos 3 and 4 are of six airmen in…
Gordon Prescott
Photo 2 is a full length portrait of Gordon Prescott as a boy scout.
Photo 3 is Gordon Prescott and two scout leaders. Gordon is holding a standard.
The three photographs are captioned…
Tags: missing in action
"On Active Service" with the British Expeditionary Force
Tags: entertainment