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A memoir of life in the WAAF during the war
Tags: 105 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 2 Group; 427 Squadron; 429 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Leeming; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Douglas Victor Conlon
Keith Ganney's Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot. Two
Tags: 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 57 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Brough; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Penrhos; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
RAF Bomber Command Tea Towel
Cook's tour photographs
Top - oblique aerial photograph of a bombed city with destroyed buildings.
Middle left - smaller version of enlarged photograph above. Captioned 'Lancaster flight from Skipton-on-Swale on a sight seeing trip over the Ruhr, shells of…
Gunner in Rose turret
Rose turret 343
Rose turret 344
From information kindly provided by the donor. 'S Rose Lancaster turret 344'.
Rose turret 345
Tags: Lancaster
Rose turret 346
Tags: 1662 HCU; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; training
L V Rosser - private diary operations
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster; pilot; Whitley
L V Rosser’s pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 10 OTU; 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1668 HCU; 19 OTU; 26 OTU; 35 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Bottesford; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Gamston; RAF Little Horwood; RAF Shenington; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; training; Wellington
K A L Killeen’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 83 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Feltwell; RAF Peplow; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
L V Rosser in Lancaster cockpit 1981
Bottom left - note stating that in 1981, allowed to sit in pilot's seat of Lancaster in the museum at Hendon, his daughter was allowed…
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Crew and Lancaster
Lancaster and list of operations
Airman, pilot and bomb aimer
Centre - view from rear of an airman looking out of the port…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; Lancaster; pilot
Aircrew
Top right - seven aircrew wearing battledress sitting and lying on grass with side view of part of Lancaster in the background.
Bottom left - ten…
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot
Aircraft and aircrew
Top right - view from the rear of aircraft of six airmen standing on the port wing of a Lancaster. Two other Lancasters parked in the…
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot
Airmen
Right - four airmen carrying a fifth outside a hut.…