Browse Items (3664 total)
- Tags: Lancaster
History of RAF Spilsby
Crew list
A Biography of Maurice Stimpson
Tags: 156 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Seighford; RAF Warboys; RAF Windrush; training
Maurice Cecil Stimpson’s pilot’s flying log book. One
Tags: 156 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Seighford; RAF Warboys; RAF Windrush; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Norm George Smith video interview
Norman William Smith - extract from flying log book
Tags: 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; mine laying; RAF Kirmington; V-2; V-weapon
Victor Stapely's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Dominie; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Proctor; RAF Henlow; RAF Kirmington; RAF Lindholme; RAF St Athan; RAF Watchfield; Tiger Moth; training; York
James Swaffield's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 29 OTU; 44 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Metheringham; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Coulon Villiers, Edward King's last operation of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; navigator; RAF Mildenhall
Stuttgart, Edward King's 29th operation of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; navigator; RAF Mildenhall
Mont Candon, Edward King's 28th operation of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; navigator; RAF Mildenhall; V-1; V-weapon
Gordon Babbage's navigator's air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 100 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 1667 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Defiant; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; Pathfinders; RAF Driffield; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Grimsby; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; training; Whitley
Homberg, Edward King's 27th op of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; H2S; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Me 109; navigator; RAF Mildenhall
Caen, Edward King's 26th operation of his tour
Chalons-sur-Marne, Edward King's 25th operation on his tour
Nucourt, Edward King's 24th operation of his tour
Linzeux, Edward King's 23rd operation of his tour
Vaires, Edward King's 22nd operation on his tour
Wizernes, Edward King's 21st operation of his tour
Beauvoir, Edward King's 20th operation of his tour
Villers Bocage, Edward King's 19th operation of his tour
L'Hay, Edward King's 18th operation of his tour
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; navigator; RAF Mildenhall; V-1; V-weapon