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- Tags: Wellington
301 Dywizjon Bombowy RAF Hemswell
Item 2 is a photograph of an airman in an aircraft cockpit.
Item 3 is an airman in a turret of an aircraft.
Item 4 is six airmen, one leaning out of the cockpit and the rest in front of the port engine of a…
RAF 18 OTU Bromcote
Item 2 is a photograph of a Wellington in flight.
Item 3 is a sketch for a flight from Bromcote to Yorkshire (Gool), Carlisle, Isle of Man, North…
Mieczysław Stachiewicz Introduction to his album
Tags: 301 Squadron; crash; RAF Hemswell; Wellington
Mieczysław Stachiewicz's RAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Keith Thompson's flying log book
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1659 HCU; 1662 HCU; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 28 OTU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hixon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Creake; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watton; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wymeswold; Shackleton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Book 5, Return to UK
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 1678 HCU; 196 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 30 OTU; 514 Squadron; 623 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Catalina; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fear; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Seighford; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Red Cross; sanitation; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
RAF Training Notes
Notes on Hygiene, Water, Accommodation and conservancy in the field, Food, cookhouses and cooking, Law and…
Tags: aircrew; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; Blenheim; Catalina; Defiant; Do 18; Do 217; Do 24; Halifax; Hampden; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 52; Ju 87; Ju 88; Lysander; Manchester; Me 109; Me 110; Mosquito; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; sanitation; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Swordfish; training; Walrus; Wellington; Whitley
David Geach's flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1665 HCU; 1678 HCU; 30 OTU; 623 Squadron; 7 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lincoln; Me 110; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Downham Market; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; RAF Upwood; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RCAF Rivers; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington
Keith Thompson's Astro Log Book
Interview with David Fellowes. Two
Tags: 1656 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military ethos; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Finningley; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hixon; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
David Donaldson's CV
Tags: 100 Group; 149 Squadron; 15 OTU; 156 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 3 Group; 57 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; fear; Hudson; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Evanton; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Methwold; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Warboys; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); training; Wellington
Wellington taking off
Tags: Wellington
Bill Willoughby
Terence Leedham's life
Terence Leedham's career
Alma Leedham's memoir
Tags: 49 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 83 Squadron; animal; bomb dump; bomb trolley; ground personnel; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Scampton; service vehicle; tractor; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Clifford Watson, civilians, airmen and a Wellington
Photo 2 is an airman with a camera. He is smoking a pipe and he is standing on snow.
Photo 3 is five airmen seated on steps in front of a wooden building. Three men are…
Tags: 150 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; pilot; Wellington
Clifford Watson, airmen and civilians
Photo 2 - an airman identified as Bill Willoughby, Navigator at Wimpey port gun position.
Photo 3 - Bill Willoughby…
Robert Holman personal service record
Five aircrew and Wellington
Tags: aircrew; Wellington
Five aircrew and a Wellington
Tags: aircrew; nose art; Wellington
John Turner collection of documents and photographs
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; Wellington
Note on John Turner killed in action
Tags: 9 Squadron; killed in action; Wellington