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- Tags: bale out
The memoir of Sergeant Harry J Whitwell wireless operator / air gunner 50 Squadron RAF
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Skellingthorpe; Red Cross; shot down; target indicator; wireless operator / air gunner
Arrest of Sergeant Hamish Philson
Tags: 106 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; evading; Hampden; prisoner of war
John Harrison's Caterpillar Club certificate
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Caterpillar Club; prisoner of war
Eric Hookings's life story book 2
Just Another Story
Tags: 12 OTU; 1678 HCU; 514 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight mechanic; Gee; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; memorial; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cardington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dumfries; RAF Foulsham; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; Red Cross; sport; Stalag 8B; strafing; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; Waffen-SS; Wellington
Letter to P J Hogan from Mr W J Sadler of the GQ parachute Co Ltd
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Pat Hogan's recollection of events on 3/4 March 1945 written to a relative of Flying Officer Alan Shelton
Tags: 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; crewing up; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); entertainment; faith; final resting place; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; home front; Ju 88; killed in action; Me 109; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Lichfield; sanitation; shot down; training; wireless operator
Report on loss of aircraft on operations
Bale out landing site
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Pat Hogan's account of being shot down and baling out
Letter to Pat Hogan from Mrs Margaret Farr
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Reg Harrison and fellow pilots
Flight Lieutenant LC Pipkin's Diary
Caterpillar club card and four aircrew
Middle - b/w photograph of four aircrew, two in front two behind. Bottom left man has pilot's brevet and the others half brevet. Captioned 'Pat Hogan (44 version) with three members of…
Tags: aircrew; bale out; Caterpillar Club; killed in action; navigator; pilot
G. Q. Club certificate
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An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1678 HCU; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Andreas; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
James A Penny’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1662 HCU; 81 OTU; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; arts and crafts; bale out; bombing; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Bourn; RAF Shawbury; RAF Sleap; RAF Upwood; shot down; Stearman; training; Whitley
Letter to Mrs Clark from Flying Officer R Hay
The memoir of Eric William Scott
Tags: 142 Squadron; 37 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; Flying Training School; Harvard; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Watchfield; RCAF Moncton; recruitment; Red Cross; searchlight; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; Stearman; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Letter to Mrs E W Scott from the caterpillar club
Tags: bale out; Caterpillar Club
Note on crew
Tags: aircrew; bale out; killed in action; pilot
The Shooting Down of Allan Smith
The second part of the story is written by a German pilot who was involved in shooting down the damaged…
Letter from F/O P R Butler to the Irvin parachute company
Tags: bale out; Caterpillar Club; RAF Grimsby
William Daymont's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 100 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Driffield; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF St Athan; training