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205 Group Royal Air Force Battle Honours
Ernest Probyn 1944 Diary
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Ju 88; Me 410; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Turweston; Stirling; training
Preface: The Crash of Lancaster LM595
Alec Pyle's Operational Flight Records
J H Bird’s pilots flying log book. One
Letter to Mervyn Adder's father from the Air Ministry
Tags: bombing; missing in action
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Draft letter form Mervyn Adder to Mr and Mrs Moodie
Tags: bombing; missing in action
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his father
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his family
M Adder grave and telegram
Bottom - telegram to Mervyn Adder's father informing him that his son was missing as a result of air…
Mervyn Adder diary 1940
Tags: bombing; home front; sport
Mervyn Adder diary 1941 and 1942
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Letter from George Bilton to his mother
Letter from George Bilton to his mother
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing
Letter from George Bilton to his mother
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing
George Bilton - observers and air gunners log book
Tags: 156 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1659 HCU; 1664 HCU; 29 OTU; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Croft; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Night fighter guns bomber
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; forced landing; navigator; 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…
Flight Log to Stuttgart
Tags: aircrew; bombing; incendiary device; navigator
Bill Eyles observer's and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1652 HCU; 20 OTU; 35 Squadron; 78 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Botha; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Dumfries; RAF Graveley; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Warboys; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Whitley
Harry Binns
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crash; flight engineer; Halifax; killed in action