Browse Items (95 total)
- Tags: 51 Squadron
Edgar Meredith Service Release letter
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
Interview with Maurice Roberts
Robert Miller’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1652 HCU; 1669 HCU; 51 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Langar; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; RAF Woolfox Lodge; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Herbert Tinning’s Royal Australian Air Force Observer’s Air Gunner’s And W/T Operator’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 51 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Desford; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Frank Horry's Record of Service
Pilot to Navigator - Where are we?
Tags: 100 Group; 4 Group; 425 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; evading; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; military service conditions; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cosford; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Manston; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Sunderland; target indicator; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Halifax Mk III - NP934 MH-V
Report and Research on the loss of Halifax NP934
The Crash of Halifax NP934
Page 1 simply states 'The Crash'.
Page 2 is a report of the crash in French and an eye witness report in English by Jean Bodart.
Page 3 is a copy of a photograph which appears on page…
Hugh Jones Service Record
Halifax III - Evidence of Collision
Tags: 10 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; 424 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; crash; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Me 109; mid-air collision; navigator; pilot; RAF Croft; RAF Snaith; wireless operator
Aircrew Categorisation Card - Navigator
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; C-47; Gee; H2S; navigator; Operational Training Unit; training
Sergeant Edward Hastie's Grave
On the reverse -
'1593365 Eddy 23 [28 above].4.44 RAF Vol Service buried Belgium
Heverlee Cemetery
Age 19
1593365
Edward Hope Hastie'
Thomas Other Prickett’s pilots flying log book. One
Henry Wagner and crew members
Crash map
Tags: 51 Squadron; crash; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Manchester
Engagement reports
Tags: 51 Squadron; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Me 110
Henry Wagner visits the graves of his crew
An account of the briefing for an operation to Essen
Tags: 100 Group; 3 Group; 4 Group; 51 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; briefing; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; incendiary device; intelligence officer; Lancaster; meteorological officer; Oboe; Pathfinders; propaganda; RAF Snaith; reconnaissance photograph; target indicator; target photograph; Window
Henry Wagner's life story. Part one
Tags: 1652 HCU; 51 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; briefing; C-47; Caterpillar Club; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Dulag Luft; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; killed in action; Master Bomber; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; padre; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; target indicator; target photograph; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley; Window
Mrs Mudd's café - some notes about the signatures
Details of death of those signing the book
Tags: 158 Squadron; 19 OTU; 26 OTU; 35 Squadron; 405 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 424 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 429 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 433 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Anson; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Halifax; Hampden; killed in action; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Croft; RAF Dishforth; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Moor; RAF Elvington; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Horwood; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Middleton St George; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Snaith; RAF Syerston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Whitley
Notes from Squadron and station operational records
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; navigator; pilot; RAF Graveley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; Spitfire; training; Typhoon; Walrus; wireless operator