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- Tags: shot down
Derrick Allen's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 467 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Pembrey; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spanhoe; RAF St Athan; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington
Details of attack on Cologne
Edward Allan McDonald's wartime memories
The second part describes the 'Skilling Follies', an aircrew who completed 25 operations from RAF Skellingthorpe.
The third part describes an…
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; briefing; crash; forced landing; Fw 190; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; shot down; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Englishman returns to the grave of his brother
Epilogue
Eric Hookings's life story book 2
Eric Scott's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Escape to happiness for Frank and Kathleen.
Eulogy for Philip Jenkinson
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; evading; Halifax; memorial; prisoner of war; shot down; training
Eulogy for Philip Jenkinson
Describes early life, joining the RAF, training and joining 10 Squadron as mid-upper gunner on Halifax. Was shot down during operation to Munich on 6/7 September 1943. After evading was capture and prisoner of war until April 1945. Goes…
Tags: 10 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; evading; Halifax; memorial; prisoner of war; shot down; training
Evaded Capture in Denmark and letter and telegram to Roy Maddock-Lyon's parents advising him he was safe
Item 2 is a letter from the Air Ministry advising his parents that he is safe in Sweden. It is captioned 'RAF Letter…
Tags: 10 Squadron; bale out; evading; Halifax; RAF Melbourne; shot down
Evelyn Payne visits the place where brother was killed
Ex-RCAF The Camp July 1983
Tags: 102 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 4 Group; 405 Squadron; 415 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 429 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 433 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Catalina; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; navigator; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Driffield; RAF Leeming; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Tholthorpe; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 7; Victoria Cross; wireless operator / air gunner
Excerpt from Robert George Sharland’s Log book
Extracts from 'Nouvelliste Valaisan'
14 airmen were buried at Vevey and the funeral is described. There is repetition…
Tags: bombing; crash; final resting place; killed in action; shot down
Extracts from Alastair Lang's pilot's flying log book
Flight Sergeant Peter Raeburn Jenkinson DFM - life story
Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…
Tags: 5 Group; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; Guinea Pig Club; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator
Flying Stories by Paul Hilton
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
'David Joseph's son Brian met Paul Hilton in the 1980's through work, and he was wearing a prisoner of war tie. In…
Tags: 35 Squadron; 58 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); dispersal; displaced person; Dulag Luft; fear; ground crew; Halifax; Ju 88; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; Red Cross; sanitation; shot down; Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; Whitley
Fred Hooker's notes after being shotdown
Fred Hooker's Prisoner Identity Card
Tags: Dulag Luft; Halifax; prisoner of war; shot down
Frederick Davy Montage
From Hackney lad to air bomber
Tags: 106 Squadron; 19 OTU; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; entertainment; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; memorial; military living conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Kinloss; RAF Syerston; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; training; Whitley; wireless operator