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- Tags: 49 Squadron
Aviation Memory
Tags: 102 Squadron; 14 OTU; 17 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Kirkham; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF North Coates; RAF North Weald; RAF Padgate; RAF Pocklington; RAF Saltby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wittering; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Cyril Bristow Adams
The Story of Harold Gorton
Interview with Thomas James Page
Tags: 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Intelligence Officer; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fiskerton; RAF St Athan; sport; training; Window
Interview with Roy Monk
Interview with Bob Hughes
Tags: 149 Squadron; 23 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; Botha; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lysander; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Pershore; RAF Skellingthorpe; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Alexander Charles Gilbert
Upon his call up,…
Tags: 149 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Bardney; RAF Calshot; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halton; RAF Kirkham; RAF Methwold; RAF Morton Hall; RAF Scampton; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Winthorpe
Interview with Ronald Davis
Tags: 49 Squadron; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); demobilisation; faith; fitter airframe; Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; perception of bombing war; RAF Scampton; RAF Winthorpe; superstition; training
Interview with John Cuthbert
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; coping mechanism; crewing up; escaping; evading; fear; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Metheringham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wainfleet; Scarecrow; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Interview with William Cooke
Tells of his spell of guard duty on board a troop ship, and losing one of the people he was showing…
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bomb struck; crash; demobilisation; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; radar; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; training; Wellington
Interview with Eric Clarke
Notes on aircraft
Interview with Frederick Ball
Bomb aimers briefing 18 September 1944 - Bremerhaven
Tags: 49 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; H2S; Master Bomber; Mosquito; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 18 October 1944
Loss of Lancaster ED 427
Tags: 49 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3
Interview with Simson Reid
Reg Woolgar's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; crash; ditching; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Hudson; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Martinet; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Foulsham; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Manby; RAF Peterborough; RAF Scampton; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner; York
Interview with Reg Woolgar
Tags: 10 OTU; 100 Group; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; ditching; entertainment; fear; FIDO; final resting place; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; Hampden; killed in action; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Foulsham; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; searchlight; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Herbert Gray's navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 49 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Stradishall; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-3; V-weapon
Members of 576 squadron
Telegram to Mr Woolgar
Tags: 49 Squadron; missing in action; RAF Scampton
49 Squadron aircrew
Tags: 49 Squadron; Hampden; RAF Scampton