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- Tags: B-17
J A Doxsey RAF observer's and air gunner's flying log book. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 149 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Boston; C-47; Hudson; Ju 52; Me 109; Me 110; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Mildenhall; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Notes from Squadron and station operational records
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; navigator; pilot; RAF Graveley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; Spitfire; training; Typhoon; Walrus; wireless operator
Lecture - "PRESS ON"
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); ditching; Fw 190; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; shot down; Spitfire; Typhoon; Walrus; Whitley
Memoirs of Flt/Sgt William Brookes, 78 Squadron, RAF Breighton
Tags: 78 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bomb struck; bombing; crewing up; fear; forced landing; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Breighton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Padgate; recruitment; searchlight; superstition; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Operation Manna
Operation Manna medals and medallions
Medallion showing Lancasters dropping packages over a stylised Dutch landscape with 1945 and…
Ted Leaviss's name tag
Aircraft
Tags: 44 Squadron; B-17; B-29; hangar; Lincoln; Meteor; RAF Mildenhall; York
Ivor William Ernest Foster’s flying log book for air gunner
Tags: 1651 HCU; 186 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 85 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Feltwell; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; Wellington
15 Squadron Wyton, 1651 HCU Waterbeach and 214 Squadron operations
Loose on the wind
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 4 Group; 578 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); control tower; crash; crewing up; Defiant; faith; fear; final resting place; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; grief; ground crew; ground personnel; Guinea Pig Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; In the event of my death letter; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; Manchester; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); medical officer; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; observer; operations room; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bawtry; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Kemble; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF St Athan; RAF Sywell; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Account of operations
Allied bombers shot down by FW Gunther Bahr
Frank Elliot's wireless operator’s flying log book
Tags: 12 OTU; 192 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Foulsham; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Watton; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Scenes on the ground
Tags: 620 Squadron; B-17; ground crew; ground personnel; Horsa; Spitfire; Stirling; Whitley
Interview with John James Smith
Thomas Other Prickett’s pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 103 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 5 BFTS; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-26; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); British Flying Training School Program; C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Mosquito; Oxford; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hullavington; RAF Lindholme; RAF Netheravon; RAF Sealand; RAF Sywell; Spitfire; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Water under the bridge
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 3 Group; 620 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; bale out; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; C-47; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Defiant; Do 217; Dominie; Dulag Luft; evading; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; Halifax; intelligence officer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; meteorological officer; military discipline; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; petrol bowser; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Marham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Penrhos; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Turweston; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Red Cross; Schräge Musik; searchlight; service vehicle; Stirling; strafing; tractor; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Biography of Reg Miles
Tags: 346 Squadron; 347 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 6 Group; 77 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; crash; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; Fw 190; Gee; Grand Slam; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Hampden; hangar; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); home front; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 109; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Carnaby; RAF Dishforth; RAF East Moor; RAF Elvington; RAF Halton; RAF Langar; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Prestwick; RAF Shawbury; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Tilstock; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; searchlight; Second Tactical Air Force; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
B-17 in flight
Place tentatively identification as Washington State by Gianluca Mazzanti of…
Tags: B-17
Draft history
Duisburg Operation Report
Tags: aircrew; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; Halifax; P-47; P-51; propaganda; Spitfire; target indicator