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Don Falgate as AC2 in 1941
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Don Falgate with Arthur Ashworth
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Don Falgate with Bolingbroke
Tags: aircrew; Bolingbroke; training
Don Falgate with fellow students on Air Navigation course Port Albert, Canada
Tags: aircrew; Anson; navigator; technical building; training
Don Falgate's ATU course
Don Falgate's pre - AFU course photograph at RAF Perth
Tags: Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bomb aimer; navigator; observer; pilot; training
Don Nicholson audio recording. One
Don lists his 31 operations and recounts how having arrived for the briefing for his first operation, he was…
Don Nicholson audio recording. Two
Don Southwell in flying kit
Donald Baker's war time story taken from letters which he wrote to his mother in Rhodesia
Tags: RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Paignton; training
Donald Chinery’s flying log book for observers and air gunners
Tags: 16 OTU; 1651 HCU; 17 OTU; 196 Squadron; 61 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Me 109; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Barford St John; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Coningsby; RAF Finningley; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Newmarket; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Turweston; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Donald Cochrane’s observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1657 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); 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); Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Binbrook; RAF Feltwell; RAF Seighford; RAF Stradishall; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Donald Evans RAF navigator’s, air bomber’s, air gunner’s and flight engineer’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 83 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bridlington; RAF Coningsby; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Metheringham; RAF Snaith; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Warboys; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training
Donald Fraser's navigator's, air bomber's, air gunner's flying log book
Doris and Ernie Twells with the leader of Derbyshire County Council
The nose and main spar of Lancaster EE134. Six men are working on it.…
Doug Petty
Photo 2 is a head and shoulders portrait of Doug Petty with a pipe in his mouth, captioned 'Newly commissioned Pilot Officer 1944'.
Douglas Hudson's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 100 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 1662 HCU; 1667 HCU; 28 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Blyton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Staverton; RAF Wymeswold; training; Wellington
Douglas Ross Arrowsmith’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 21 OTU; 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Dr Maurice Brook Interview
Tags: 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Draft history
Draft life story
Drawings of flying exercises
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