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- Tags: mid-air collision
Interview with William Hubert Allen
Tags: 10 OTU; 102 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; mid-air collision; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF Yatesbury; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Letter from Harold Wakefield to his parents
Letter from S G (Stan) Adams to Rebecca Dunn concerning the collision of two Halifax at RAF Pocklington
Letter to Bill Lutwyche's wife
Letter to Mrs W Brooks from Royal Air Force Records Office
Memoirs by Crew Members' Family of the Collision with Ron Carter's Lancaster
New museum in spotlight
Article 2 is a wartime memoir by Ivor Cole, 103 Squadron.
Article 3 describes some of the exhibits at the new Hendon museum.
No 25 OTU 24.07.1942 Wellingtons T2701 and DV476
Obituary - Flight Lieutenant Fred Weston DFC
One Last Op
Palmer V.C pathfinder fact sheet
Tags: 105 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; killed in action; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Feltwell; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mildenhall; shot down; Victoria Cross; Wellington
R W Slaughter’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mid-air collision; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; training; Wellington
Raid Report Book - 9 Squadron
Rear view - Ralph Briars memoir
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 109; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Scarecrow; searchlight; service vehicle; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Record card for collision between Lancasters W 4182 and W4259
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Tags: 44 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Lancaster; mid-air collision
Reg Jaques biography
Six newspaper cuttings
Middle left - Regiment…
Sortie report Brescia
Tags: 104 Squadron; bombing; crash; mid-air collision
Summary of servicemen and women billeted with the Wray family
Thanksgiving address for the life of Arthur Norman Hollis OBE, DFC
The great raids - Peenemunde 17 August 1943
Book includes:
Handwritten note on front 'In memory of Fred Dunn, killed Nov 22/23 1943'.
Telegram to Mr A C Dunn regretting to inform him that his son Sgt…
The Story of Flight Lieutenant John J Blair, DFC
John was born in 1919 to a poor…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 4 Group; 78 Squadron; African heritage; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; medical officer; mid-air collision; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Kinloss; RAF Oakington; RAF Pocklington; RAF Tangmere; RCAF Moncton; searchlight; sport; training; Whitley; wireless operator
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
William Warburton Sgt Flight Engineer RAF
Tags: 101 Squadron; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; mid-air collision; navigator; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; wireless operator