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The Kriegie April 2004
Tags: 10 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Beaufighter; Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); entertainment; Halifax; Harvard; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Hendon; RAF Little Rissington; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley
The Kriegie August 1986
The Kriegie August 1988
Tags: 107 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 70 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; Battle; Blenheim; Boston; C-47; Catalina; Caterpillar Club; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; entertainment; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; Horsa; Hurricane; Ju 88; Me 109; Me 110; memorial; mess; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Elvington; RAF Hendon; RAF Leeming; RAF Lissett; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Shipdham; RAF Ternhill; Red Cross; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Kriegie December 2000
Tags: 37 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bombing; C-47; crash; Dulag Luft; evading; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; Halifax; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 87; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; memorial; mess; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunsfold; RAF Harwell; Red Cross; Scharnhorst; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; the long march; Tiger Moth; Typhoon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Kriegie December 2002
Tags: 150 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; de Jongh, Andree (1916 - 2007); Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; memorial; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Hendon; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Kriegie December 2005
Tags: 10 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 544 Squadron; 601 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; arts and crafts; bale out; Caterpillar Club; civil defence; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); escaping; flight engineer; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Halifax; Hampden; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); killed in action; Lancaster; memorial; mess; Mosquito; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Benson; RAF Duxford; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Northolt; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 357; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; the long march
The Kriegie July 1999
Tags: 149 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 58 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Caterpillar Club; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; escaping; flight engineer; George Cross; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; mine laying; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cosford; RAF Halton; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Pocklington; RAF Spilsby; RAF St Eval; RAF West Freugh; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
The Kriegie June 1988
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; ground personnel; Hurricane; Lancaster; Manchester; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Binbrook; RAF Kinloss; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Kriegie June 2001
Tags: 10 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; B-24; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; escaping; flight engineer; Fw 190; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; medical officer; memorial; mess; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Jurby; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lyneham; RAF Melbourne; RAF St Athan; RAF Uxbridge; Red Cross; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
The Kriegie March 1992
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; Caterpillar Club; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; entertainment; flight engineer; fuelling; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Me 110; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Farnborough; RAF Honington; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Waddington; Red Cross; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Kriegie November 2011
Tags: 103 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 220 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Blenheim; Boston; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; escaping; Fw 190; Hudson; Lancaster; memorial; mess; navigator; P-51; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Attlebridge; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Leeming; RAF Waddington; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
The last flight of Lancaster DV396(B)
Tags: 467 Squadron; bale out; crash; Fw 190; Lancaster; shot down; superstition
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
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
The Pilgrimage of an English airman who in 1944 came down in the Spa region
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…
To Cologne - Gremberg by Oboe - tribute to Squadron Leader Robert A.M.Palmer VC, DFC & Bar
Tags: 109 Squadron; 20 OTU; 582 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; B-24; B-26; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; crash; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Fw 190; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 109; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-47; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Graveley; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Manston; shot down; training; Victoria Cross; wireless operator
Transcript of letter from John Valentine to his mother
Tags: bale out; crash; Dulag Luft; prisoner of war
Translation of German articles that appeared in German newspapers
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bale out; crash; evading; Halifax; prisoner of war; shot down
Two boys, friends flew to the war
Two newspaper cuttings
Right - Army and RAF pay changes, Table…
VC's smile made men brave
Visit to Poix-de-la-Somme War Cemetery, France
Wallet, photograph and story
Tags: bale out; crash; heirloom; killed in action; Stirling
Walter Braithwaite’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1652 HCU; 171 Squadron; 21 OTU; 24 OTU; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Elvington; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF North Creake; RAF St Eval; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Whitley