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- Tags: bombing up
Halifax Bombing Up
Newspaper Cuttings
Item 1 is about Bombing-up the last Lancaster. Asterisked is a reference to Reg Hutton.
Item 2 and 3 refer to D-day viewed from a Lancaster by Flight Sergeant Hutton.
Item 4 and 5 refer to bombing of shore batteries by…
Mess, Barracks and Battle at McDonald
Photo 1 is inside the mess, captioned 'What a Mess!'.
Photo 2 is the inside of Sam's barracks, captioned 'What a Barracks'.
Photo 3 is a Battle loaded with bombs, captioned 'Bombing Up'.
Tags: Battle; bombing up; mess; military living conditions; training
Eight Air and Ground Crew and a Bomb Load
Behind is a Lancaster 'P', identified in the Inventory as 'KB760 NA-P'.
Loaded Bomb Bay
Seven Airmen and a 4000lb bomb
On the nose is 16 bombs and 'Sweet Adeline'.
It is annotated 'PL-29631'.
Armourers and Ground Crew
In photo 1 there are nine airmen behind a trolley of bombs. It is captioned 'L to R, - Wilson, Bowles, Phillips, Williams, Sheppard, Williams, Self, Osborne, our French Canadian.'
In photo 2 are five armourers…
Special Christmas Card for the Reich
Painted on it is 'Ontario Citizens Special Xmas Card for the Reich' and has the names of where the crews originate - 'Ottawa, London, Perkins, Toronto, Timmins,…
Loading Mines
In the second image a mine is on a trolley. Chalked on the mine is the…
Two men sitting on a bomb trolley
199 Squadron
Second is of small car, captioned "Crew - bus", my first car bought when on ops with 199 Sqdn.'
Third is of right-hand forward nose of a…
Short Stirling
Bombing up a Wellington
Photo 2 is a close up of the bombs being loaded into the Wellington. Two armourers are steadying the bomb and a third is winding a winch to load the bomb.
Lancaster maintenance
Bombing up Lancaster, 1943
John Joseph Parker's service
Tags: 1 Group; bombing up; incendiary device
Wire bomb fusing
Tags: bombing up
Lancaster with 12000 lb bomb
Lancaster with 12000 lb bomb
Andrew Bain 'bombing up'
Tags: bombing up; training
Interview with Frank Saunston
Interview with Eric Peel
Interview with Peter Morris
Tags: 106 Squadron; 120 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing up; ground personnel; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lincoln; navigator; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Ken Marshall
Interview with Edward George Key
Tags: 514 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing up; crash; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF St Athan; RAF Waterbeach; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; Stirling; training