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- Tags: B-17
John Cox’s pilots flying log book. One
John Lancaster DFC
Tags: aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; B-17; B-24; B-25; B-26; Beaufighter; Blenheim; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; Horsa; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Martinet; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; Oxford; P-51; pilot; Proctor; Shackleton; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Typhoon; Ventura; Walrus; Wellington; Whitley; York
John Louis Goldby Biography
Tags: 10 OTU; 38 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Ford; RAF Henlow; RAF Jurby; RAF Kenley; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Odiham; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Swinderby; RAF Topcliffe; Shackleton; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 227 Squadron; 25 OTU; 30 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 84 OTU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Desborough; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Keith Thompson's flying log book
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1659 HCU; 1662 HCU; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 28 OTU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hixon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Creake; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watton; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wymeswold; Shackleton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
L Hadfield's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
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
Len Roose
On the reverse 'Len Roose On Turret'.
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; B-17
Leonard William Fairbank's service history
Tags: 100 Group; 20 OTU; 223 Squadron; 25 OTU; 408 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-17; B-24; bombing; Dominie; Halifax; Hampden; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Finningley; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Oulton; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Letter from Ted Neale
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
Marion Clark Biography
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
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
Memories of Past Times
Tags: 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Caterpillar Club; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Oakington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; Tiger Moth; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley
Michael James Beetham’s pilots flying log book. Two
Munich Plastered Again: Terrific 25-Minute Blitz
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bombing; Lancaster; Me 110; propaganda
My Prisoner of War Days
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; evading; H2S; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); P-51; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Odiham; Red Cross; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); sport; Stalag Luft 3; strafing; the long march; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon