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- Tags: 12 Squadron
Letter to Jack Newton's wife
Tags: 12 Squadron; missing in action; RAF Binbrook
Letter to Jack Newton's wife from RAF Records
Tags: 12 Squadron; missing in action
Harold Dryhurst RAF pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 26 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Flying Training School; Halifax; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bramcote; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Driffield; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Peterborough; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Wing; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Harold Dryhurst Service biography
Peter Baxter
Units Peter Baxter served at
No 12 Squadron orders for night flying
No 12 Squadron crew members
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Wickenby
I Flew with Nine Wing Commanders
Tags: 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; debriefing; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; Do 217; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 3; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; promotion; RAF Cosford; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RAF Tilstock; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; target photograph; training; Whitley; Window
Sqdn Ldr Slade and crew
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Wickenby
Sqdn/Ldr Villiers and crew
The first is of the crew with Lancaster ED548 squadron letter V, airfield and aircraft servicing equipment in the background.
Second is…
Peter Baxter and his crew
Lancaster in flight
Tags: 12 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Wickenby
Peter Baxter
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster; RAF Wickenby
Losses on Munich raid 6/7 September 1943
Tags: 10 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 9 Squadron; crash; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; prisoner of war
Main Ops - with crew only
Tags: 12 Squadron; 626 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); ground crew; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 109; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; P-51; Pathfinders; searchlight; Spitfire; superstition; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Loose on the wind
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 4 Group; 578 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control tower; crash; crewing up; Defiant; faith; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; In the event of my death letter; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; Manchester; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); medical officer; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; observer; operations room; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Harold Yeoman’s pilot’s flying log book
Obituary: Harold Yeoman
Biography of Squadron Leader Alastair G Lang DFC
Tags: 12 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; ground personnel; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Newton; RAF Warboys; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Extracts from Alastair Lang's pilot's flying log book
John Robert Watson’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 85 OTU; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 410; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Eric Parker's Biography
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 242 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 47 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-29; Blenheim; bomb aimer; C-47; Cornell; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; ground personnel; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; Me 109; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Paignton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; RAF Sywell; RAF Upwood; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Eric Parker and Crew
'The crew are, left to right (ranks at the time the photo was taken, late 1944)
Sgt Trevor Connolly (NZ) - Wireless Operator
Eric Parker
Sgt…
Ronald Witty’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 1656 HCU; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Desborough; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Sturgate; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington