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- Tags: 50 Squadron
Lancaster on dispersal
Tags: 50 Squadron; dispersal; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Airmen by the window of a hut
Tags: 50 Squadron; ground personnel; RAF Swinderby
Flying Officer Leslie Thomas Manser, Victoria Cross
Frank Hobbs’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); crash; Dominie; final resting place; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF East Kirkby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pembrey; RAF Penrhos; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Yatesbury; superstition; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
George Holmes sortie record sheet 9 and 50 Squadrons
Lancaster nose and starboard wing
Tags: 50 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
'If I don't come back' documentary newspaper cuttings
Cutting 2 is an explanation of the idea of why the documentary was made and some detail about what inspired it.
Cutting 3 is…
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Thanksgiving address for the life of Arthur Norman Hollis OBE, DFC
V Group News, September 1943
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 1661 HCU; 1668 HCU; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; propaganda; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; rivalry; take-off crash; training; wireless operator
Arthur Hollis' award of the Distinguished Flying Cross
Gordon Cruickshank's crew after crash landing
Tags: 50 Squadron; bombing; crash; forced landing; Lancaster; RAF Bradwell Bay
Gordon Cruickshank's crew after crash landing
Captioned between pages 39-40 of 1956 Memoir '[Underlined] Bradwell [\Underlined] After Hamburg 1942, showing self, P/O Power, Sgt Wilson, Sgt Conner. Both…
Tags: 50 Squadron; bombing; crash; forced landing; Lancaster; RAF Bradwell Bay
Commemorative Plaque
On the left and right - RAF bases and operations carried out from them.
On the right - a map on northern Europe and United…
50 Squadron event badge
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: 50 Squadron
Bremen 4/5 Sept. 1942 50 Squadron
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bombing
This stone was unlaid at Dusseldorf by 50 Sqdn
This stone was unlaid at Bremen by 50 Sqdn
This stone was unlaid at Wilhelmshaven by 50 Sqdn
This stone was unlaid at Duisburg by 50 Sqdn
Lancaster in the Air
Photo 2 and 3 are predicted anti-aircraft fire explosions.
Photo 4 is an oblique image of the Rhine.
Photo 5 is the port side of Lancaster VN-N viewed from slightly above and to the front.
Lancaster crew and 50 Squadron photograph
Tags: 50 Squadron; Lancaster
Ron Marlow's crew
Lancaster in Flight
Tags: 207 Squadron; 50 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Spilsby