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- Tags: Distinguished Flying Cross
Bomber Command and Notes of Some of My Experiences During 1941-1945
Tags: 102 Squadron; 4 Group; 617 Squadron; 77 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Bismarck; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Initial Training Wing; intelligence officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Elvington; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Jurby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; Schräge Musik; service vehicle; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stearman; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator
Halton DFC is presumed dead
Their husbands' decorations
Newspaper cutting - investiture of husband's medal
WAR - Frankfurt Revisited
Tags: aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; Lancaster; meteorological officer; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; searchlight; target indicator; target photograph; wireless operator
The fourth flight to Berlin
Service history
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Wretham; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wittering; RAF Wymeswold; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
William Baker RAF Form 543 personnel
Aircrew and newspaper articles
Top right - newspaper cutting - Lancaster lands on bomb door. Account of badly damage Lancaster with wounded crew returning from operation…
W B Baker’s observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; forced landing; killed in action; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wickenby; training; Whitley
Legend
William Baker commissioning scroll
Combat report
William Baker recommendation for award of Distinguished Flying Cross
William Ray Peter Perry DFC - biography
Java Jive
Flight Lieutenant WRP Perry DFC
Tags: aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; pilot
Aircrews
Top right - seven aircrew wearing a variety of…
Peter Perry's decorations
Letter to William R P Perry from King George
Pilot's uniform tunic
Tags: aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; pilot