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- Tags: RAF Skellingthorpe
Interview with Gordon Catling
Interview with Les Rutherford. One
Interview with Reg Payne. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dominie; Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; physical training; Proctor; RAF North Coates; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington; Window
Procedures and Life of an Air Gunner with a Lancaster Squadron
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; meteorological officer; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
9 Squadron Battle Order 22nd March 1944
Kitchen staff at RAF Skellingthorpe
27 flight engineers at RAF Skellingthorpe
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; RAF Skellingthorpe
Ground personnel in front of Nissen hut
Six aircrew by the tail of a Lancaster
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; dispersal; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Bomb aimers briefing 10 September 1944 - Le Havre
RAF Skellingthorpe
RAF Skellingthorpe
Airmen on a bomb trolley
Lancaster parked in dispersal
Lancaster on dispersal
50 Squadron armourers
50 Squadron armourers
Large group of armourers in front of corrugated iron building
50 Squadron armoury personnel
Warrant Officer Edwards standing in front of building
Lancaster parked on grass
Tags: 50 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Lancaster in field
Tags: 50 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Lancaster on dispersal
Tags: 50 Squadron; dispersal; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Lancaster on dispersal
Tags: 50 Squadron; dispersal; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe