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Pete's ground crew
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster
Registered numbers and squadron letters (& fate) of Manchester & Lancasters flown
Label for Lancaster
Tags: 106 Squadron; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3
Service training
Right - three airmen wearing tunics, two sitting in front and one standing behind. Captioned 'No 3…
431 Squadron
Tags: 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bombing; ground crew; Halifax; Lancaster; RAF Burn; RAF Croft; RAF Tholthorpe; Wellington
Operations
Below left - descriptions of the four operations giving numbers and types of aircraft used,…
Operations
Below - two documents giving accounts of these two operations with types of aircraft used, losses, enemy fighter operations, weather,…
Tags: 431 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Croft
Operations, the railway plan
Top left - extract from Ned Sparkes's logbook from 1 March 1944 to 29 March 1944 with operations to Trappes, Le Mans (twice), Brest,…
Tags: 3 Group; 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; RAF Croft; Stirling
Operations
Underneath - six short documents with accounts of these six operations…
Tags: 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders
Operation Overlord
Top left - newspaper cutting providing account of plan for attack on Merville battery including saturation bombing by Lancasters and ground attack. Goes on with account of actual…
Tags: 1 Group; 4 Group; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders
Operations
Right - three short documents one partially obscured two relating to flying bomb sites, and…
Operations
Right - document titled "The Reckoning". Giving details of bomber commands sorties, aircraft and…
Tags: 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 OTU; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-38; prisoner of war; RAF Bruntingthorpe; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Conversion courses
Left - wedding photograph a full length image of an airman wearing tunic with half brevet and holding peaked…
No 5 Ferry Pool Silloth
Below - Extract from Ned Sparkes log book from 1October 1946 to 18 October…
Tags: aircrew; Anson; Dominie; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oxford; RAF Silloth; Wellington
Lancaster airborne
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Waddington
Lancaster
Bottom - front quarter view of parked Lancaster. Captioned 'waiting…
Lancaster newspaper cuttings
Lancaster
Top right -…
Airmen
Right - four airmen carrying a fifth outside a hut.…
Aircraft and aircrew
Top right - view from the rear of aircraft of six airmen standing on the port wing of a Lancaster. Two other Lancasters parked in the…
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot
Aircrew
Top right - seven aircrew wearing battledress sitting and lying on grass with side view of part of Lancaster in the background.
Bottom left - ten…
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot
Airman, pilot and bomb aimer
Centre - view from rear of an airman looking out of the port…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; Lancaster; pilot