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My life in the Royal Air Force Bomber Command
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; bombing; Boston; briefing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; Me 109; memorial; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; perception of bombing war; promotion; RAF Benson; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF High Wycombe; RAF Manston; Raf Mauripur; RAF Padgate; RAF Scampton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; recruitment; searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
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 June 1995
Tags: 106 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Beaufighter; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; escaping; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; George Cross; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; memorial; Military Cross; prisoner of war; RAF Alconbury; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Honington; Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; the long march; Victoria Cross; wireless operator
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 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 March 2007
Tags: 102 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 18 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 32 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; ditching; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; mine laying; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halton; RAF Marham; RAF Northolt; RAF St Eval; RAF Wittering; Red Cross; Special Operations Executive; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; Typhoon; Wellington
The Kriegie March 2010
Tags: 10 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; Distinguished Service Order; Dulag Luft; escaping; evading; flight engineer; Hampden; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; Military Cross; mine laying; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF North Coates; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Northolt; Special Operations Executive; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Whitley
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 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
Interview with Kenneth Ivan Duddell
Ken joined the RAF in January 1942 and qualified as a flight engineer in July 1943 at RAF St Athans. He passed through a number to RAF Stations before they were…
Interview with Geoffrey Robinson
Tags: 626 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; military ethos; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Wickenby; searchlight; Tiger force
Interview with Harold Kirby. Two
Tags: 156 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); briefing; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; military ethos; Pathfinders; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Waddington; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window
Wally Layne's YMCA prisoner of war log book
Walter Morris - 1939/45 War Record
Tags: 166 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bomb struck; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military ethos; military living conditions; mine laying; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Kirkham; RAF Kirmington; RAF Manby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wittering; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Herbert Gray
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer
Procedures and Life of an Air Gunner with a Lancaster Squadron
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; meteorological officer; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Warsaw Supply Drop 13-14 August 1944
51 Squadron, 4 Group, RAF Bomber Command
Tags: 4 Group; 5 Group; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Carnaby; RAF Elvington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Odiham; RAF Snaith; RAF Tangmere; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
9 Squadron Battle Order 22nd March 1944
Letter to Charlie Warner's Mother
A-Able aircrew
John Young and John Hartley
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; wireless operator
First day in the Canadian squadron 432
Flight Sergeant Stanley Archer and three other airmen
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster; pilot
Memorial booklet
Left inside page is blank, right inside page has images of seven aircrew, two at the top, 3 in the middle and two at the bottom. All are in…