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- Tags: Pathfinders
Interview with Frank Dell
Interview with Ernest Davenport
Interview with Bernard Walter Culpin
Interview with Tony Gerard
Tags: 7 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bridlington; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Valley; RAF Weston-super-Mare; Stirling; training
Jack Warner's account of first ten operations
George Holmes
Tags: aircrew; Pathfinders; wireless operator
George Holmes sortie record sheet 83 Squadron
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Before I was in the RAF by Reg Payne
Tags: 14 OTU; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; civil defence; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; heirloom; Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; lynching; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Waddington; RAF Wittering; sanitation; superstition; training; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Aviation Memory
Tags: 102 Squadron; 14 OTU; 17 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Kirkham; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF North Coates; RAF North Weald; RAF Padgate; RAF Pocklington; RAF Saltby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wittering; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Fred Whybrow draft Obituary
Interview with Keith Boles
Was it all a Dream
Tags: 1 Group; 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 4 Group; 5 Group; 576 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Lysander; Master Bomber; medical officer; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bicester; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Brampton; RAF Cosford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kimbolton; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Paignton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Peplow; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Scarecrow; searchlight; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Alice Wrigley
Wings of Peace over New York
The RAF goes to New York
Victory day flypast
Photograph 1 is 12 Lancasters in formation at the Fly past. It is captioned 'Victory Day Fly Past 8th June 1946'
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting referring to…
Tags: 35 Squadron; Lancaster; Pathfinders
James Wrigley's flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1656 HCU; 19 OTU; 199 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 81 OTU; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Dominie; final resting place; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Tilstock; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Rascal’s flying log book for aircrew mascot
Tags: 1656 HCU; 19 OTU; 635 Squadron; 81 OTU; 97 Squadron; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; RAF Yatesbury; superstition; training; Wellington; Whitley
Talk to the Haywards Heath Historical Society
Tags: 635 Squadron; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; Caterpillar Club; H2S; Halifax; Harvard; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Downham Market; RAF Ford; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 1; submarine; training; V-1; V-weapon