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- Tags: Wellington
A letter from Derek's daughter
Tags: aircrew; navigator; Wellington
Flight Lieutenant William Alfred Colson DFM (141402) - Biography
Walter Morris - 1939/45 War Record
Tags: 166 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bomb struck; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military ethos; military living conditions; mine laying; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Kirkham; RAF Kirmington; RAF Manby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wittering; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Moncton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Me - William Roy Peter Perry DFC
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 227 Squadron; 29 OTU; 5 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; B-17; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
German Air Force camp prisoner of war index card
Tags: Dulag Luft; prisoner of war; Stalag Luft 4; Wellington
World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington; Window
Letter from Bill Akrill to his mother
51 Squadron, 4 Group, RAF Bomber Command
Tags: 4 Group; 5 Group; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Carnaby; RAF Elvington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Odiham; RAF Snaith; RAF Tangmere; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Five aircrew in front of a Wellington
Tags: aircrew; Wellington
George Reid Williamson in front of a Wellington
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Wellington
History of RAF Hemswell
Tags: 1 Group; 144 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 170 Squadron; 3 Group; 300 Squadron; 301 Squadron; 305 Squadron; 5 Group; 61 Squadron; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Hampden; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Mosquito; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ingham; training; Wellington
John Bagg by a Wellington
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: ground personnel; Wellington
Canal, Wellington and Spitfire, C-47 and glider
Tags: C-47; Horsa; Spitfire; taxiway; Wellington
Crashed aircraft
Bottom left a colour photograph of a crashed Wellington with nose to the left side. The cockpit roof is open…
Tags: B-24; crash; Wellington
Destroyed Wellington rear turret and crashed B-24
Top right front quarter view of a crashed B-24…
Tags: B-24; crash; final resting place; killed in action; Wellington
37 Squadron Wellingtons
Middle an air-to-air view of a Wellington D-LF N2992 showing ventral dustbin turret, with open countryside below.
Bottom an air-to-air…
Tags: 37 Squadron; Wellington
Watergate Bay, burning Wellington and trophies
Tags: aerial photograph; crash; take-off crash; Wellington
Three Wellingtons in flight
Tags: 149 Squadron; Wellington
Elsham Wolds' Great Part in Bombing Campaign
Tags: 100 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 576 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); ditching; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Ju 88; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Kirmington; RAF North Killingholme; rivalry; Wellington
Elsham Wolds Commemorative Plaque
Photograph 2 is of Ivor Cole and Syd Marshall studying photographs in a scrapbook on the bonnet of a yellow car.
Photograph 3 is…
Tags: 103 Squadron; Halifax; Lancaster; memorial; RAF Elsham Wolds; Wellington
Newspaper articles featuring 103 Squadron
76 OTU Training Course
Group of six aircrew and four other airmen in front of a Wellington
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; Wellington
Group of six aircrew and four other airemen in front of a Wellington
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; Wellington