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- Tags: Cook’s tour
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; superstition; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon
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
Interview with William Hough
Tags: 1656 HCU; 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Worksop; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
List of immediate post war operations
Interview with Charles McNally
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; FIDO; flight engineer; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; physical training; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Lindholme; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wroughton; sport; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Frank Stafford
Interview with Wal Goodwin
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; displaced person; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Haverfordwest; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Jack Webster
Tags: 12 OTU; 138 Squadron; 1668 HCU; 514 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bottesford; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Madley; RAF Tuddenham; training; wireless operator
Interview with Archie Weir
Interview with Ernest James White
Tags: 44 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Botha; Cook’s tour; Lancaster; Lysander; memorial; military service conditions; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Graveley; RAF Morpeth; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; searchlight; Window
Interview with Roland Spencer Williams
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; crash; crewing up; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Mepal; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakley; RAF Padgate; RAF Westcott; shot down; training; Wellington
Ronald Bailey's flying log book
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1666 HCU; 425 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Lissett; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wombleton; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Interview with Geoffrey Charles Spencer
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; demobilisation; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Henlow; RAF Swinderby; Spitfire; Stirling; training; York
David Donaldson's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 100 Group; 149 Squadron; 15 OTU; 156 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 192 Squadron; 57 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Flying Training School; Gee; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Lancaster; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Evanton; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Warboys; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wyton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
David Donaldson's pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 192 Squadron; aircrew; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Mosquito; Oxford; pilot; RAF Foulsham; Tiger Moth
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Jeff Brown's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 11 OTU; 149 Squadron; 1668 HCU; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Martinet; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Bottesford; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Burn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dalcross; RAF Driffield; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Marham; RAF Oakley; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF Westcott; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Jim Allen’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 15 OTU; 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; 578 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Banff; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Burn; RAF Harwell; RAF Hullavington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Paignton; RAF Rufforth; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Estevan; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Interview with Andrew Barron. Three
Arthur Pearce's air gunners flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 170 Squadron; 30 OTU; 35 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Ingham; RAF Kelstern; RAF Seighford; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Arthur Pearce Air Force Diary 1945
Cologne
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Cook’s tour
Post war German bomb damage
Photograph of a destroyed bridge over a river, captioned, 'Last bridge over the Rhine-Remagen'.
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Bonn bomb damage, prisoners, wedding photographs
Aerial photograph of large fenced areas captioned 'Prisoners'.
Two small photographs, one of bride and groom on church steps with RAF party, second of Keith Thompson and Jessie in garden…
Ken Beard’s flying log book for air gunners
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 17 OTU; 20 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manby; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pembrey; RAF Riccall; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stanton Harcourt; training; Wellington; Whitley