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- Tags: 51 Squadron
Interview with Robert Miller
Tags: 10 OTU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; love and romance; Master Bomber; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pat; perception of bombing war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Langar; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Interview with Wally Lashbrook
Ken Calton’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 242 Squadron; 3 Group; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 7 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Blyton; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Graveley; RAF Oakington; RAF Pembrey; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; RAF Witchford; training; York
L V Rosser’s pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 10 OTU; 12 OTU; 1668 HCU; 19 OTU; 26 OTU; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Defiant; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dishforth; RAF Gamston; RAF Grantham; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Shenington; RAF Topcliffe; training; Wellington; Whitley
Laurence Larmer's crew
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
Laurence Larmer's Royal Australian Air Force flying log book
Tags: 1658 HCU; 27 OTU; 466 Squadron; 51 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Banff; RAF Dallachy; RAF Driffield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Mrs Mudd's café - some notes about the signatures
Newspaper cutting - Bennerley boy awarded DFC
Newspaper cutting - Leicester and Loughborough officers awarded DFC
Newspaper cutting - RAF awards
Notes from Squadron and station operational records
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; navigator; pilot; RAF Graveley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; Spitfire; training; Typhoon; Walrus; wireless operator
Operations order from 4 Group
Tags: 1 Group; 10 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 466 Squadron; 5 Group; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; 640 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 8 Group; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Pathfinders; RAF Driffield; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Snaith; target indicator
Personnel in front of Halifax
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: 51 Squadron; Halifax; hangar; RAF Snaith
Peter Galan's (Thomas Blyth's navigator) - navigators flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1658 HCU; 51 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; training; Whitley
Pilot Officer Peter R Galan
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; navigator
Pilot to Navigator - Where are we?
Tags: 100 Group; 4 Group; 425 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 77 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; evading; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; military service conditions; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cosford; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Manston; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Sunderland; target indicator; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Pilot wins D.F.C
Middle and bottom, congratulations to Bob on his award.
Right page; top, title of the Vauxhall Mirror.
Middle, report of Bob's operational career…
Postgram to Harold Wakefield
RAF Snaith and 51 Squadron Group
#1 is an oblique aerial photograph of Snaith taken during the war.
#2 is a group of men arranged in three rows in front of a Halifax. Bob's position is indicated in the caption.
Tags: 51 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Halifax; RAF Snaith
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Report and Research on the loss of Halifax NP934
Robert Miller’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1651 HCU; 1652 HCU; 1669 HCU; 51 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Langar; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; RAF Woolfox Lodge; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Robert Victor Keeling's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 10 OTU; 21 OTU; 22 OTU; 51 Squadron; 7 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; Flying Training School; Hampden; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Magister; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Burnaston; RAF Cranage; RAF Dishforth; RAF Farnborough; RAF Hullavington; RAF Kemble; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Oakington; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Spitfire; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Ron Carter's Service Record
Sergeant Edward Hastie's Grave
On the reverse -
'1593365 Eddy 23 [28 above].4.44 RAF Vol Service buried Belgium
Heverlee Cemetery
Age 19
1593365
Edward Hope Hastie'