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- Tags: Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947)
Certificate of Burial
Chancellor of Manchester University, Sir John Stopford, Professor (Sir) John Cockcroft, Roy Chadwick CBE and Sir Harold Hartley
Congratulatory letter to Roy Chadwick
Copy of Entry of Death - Roy Chadwick
Tags: Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); crash
Copy of Peter Potter's flying log book
Tags: 30 OTU; 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); fear; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 262; military ethos; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Hixon; RAF Pembrey; RAF Wickenby; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Design team at Avro's Chadderton
Five men standing under an Avro Nene Lancastrian
Four men in a cockpit
Group of men gathered round a table with two models of aircraft
I am a designer
Interview with Mary Stopes-Roe
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bouncing bomb; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); childhood in wartime; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Grand Slam; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Tallboy; Tirpitz; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
Interview with Peter Potter
Interview with Rosemary Lapham
Interview with Rosemary Lapham
Interview with Stuart Stephenson MBE
In the early 1970s the Lancaster PA474 was flown to RAF Waddington from RAF Henlow ostensibly to be a gate guardian. In 1973 the Lincolnshire Echo announced that it was to…
Tags: Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); childhood in wartime; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; perception of bombing war; petrol bowser; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Coltishall; RAF Coningsby; RAF Waddington; service vehicle; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)