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- Tags: bale out
My War Story
Tags: 1664 HCU; 22 OTU; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lynching; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Dalcross; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elvington; RAF Gaydon; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Inverness; RAF Manston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Red Cross; sanitation; service vehicle; sport; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
My Wartime Memories by Richard Yates
Tags: 19 OTU; 35 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; bale out; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Dominie; Dulag Luft; forced landing; Gneisenau; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; love and romance; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Jurby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Scharnhorst; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
New Zealand aircrew captured by elements of the Todt Organisation
Tags: arts and crafts; bale out; forced labour
Newspaper cutting
Newspaper cuttings award of Victoria Cross
Tags: aircrew; bale out; bombing; crash; Grand Slam; killed in action; Master Bomber; pilot; shot down; Victoria Cross
Note on crew
Tags: aircrew; bale out; killed in action; pilot
Obituary - Flight Lieutenant Fred Weston DFC
One Last Op
Operation Kassel
Parachute Drill (Emergency) - Lancaster
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bale out; flight engineer; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Parachute jump
Tags: bale out
Parachute Story
Pat Hogan's account of being shot down and baling out
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
Paul's School Work
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; evading; Lancaster; pilot; Resistance; Wellington
Personnel
Peter Hazeldene's Biography
Philip Jenkinson's account of operation to Munich on which his aircraft was shot down
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; Dulag Luft; evading; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; prisoner of war; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6
Philip Jenkinson's journey in Germany after being shot down
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bale out; C-47; Dulag Luft; evading; prisoner of war; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6
Philip's operational record
Pierre Madry raises his Hat to the Crew of a British Bomber
Finally there is an address by Abbe Plante, parish priest of Lyons-la-Foret,…