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463 Squadron 1945
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; hangar; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Aircrew with Lancaster
- one of aircrew at night, being collected or dropped off at the dispersal.
- second, also at night, is of a crew in flying gear gathered around entrance door of Lancaster (W4964 squadron code WS).
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; service vehicle
Arthur Atkinson’s observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 61 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 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 Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Bomber crew
Tags: 9 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster
Sergeant John Joseph Zammit
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster
'A Day at East Kirkby'
Operational Record ledger
Tags: 156 Squadron; anti-Semitism; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); briefing; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; target indicator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
William H Cooke’s navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Flying Officer Douglas Petty Memoirs
Tags: 1659 HCU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; FIDO; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 262; mine laying; RAF Leeming; RAF St Athan; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Torquay; RAF Woodbridge; training
Lancaster Crew
Photo 1 is seven airmen arranged in two rows in front of the tail of a Lancaster.
Photo 2 is one airmen posing in front of the tail turret. He is holding onto two guns.
Photo 3 is one airman…
The Avro Repair Organisation. Bracebridge Heath
People I remember at Defford
Telecommunications Flying Unit, Defford
Various aircraft were…
Tags: B-17; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Blenheim; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Hudson; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; military discipline; Mosquito; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Defford; RAF Wyton; Stirling; Wellington
The Boggis Dicer
Tags: arts and crafts; Lancaster
Memories and Reminiscences of Bob Sharrock
Tags: 1664 HCU; 428 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; Beaufighter; crash; flight engineer; flight mechanic; ground crew; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; RAF Credenhill; RAF Dishforth; RAF Kinloss; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; recruitment; shelter; training
Bob Sharrock’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
428 "Ghost" Squadron RCAF
Don Southwell and crew
'The Crew Waddington'
'463 Squadron Don -2nd from right'
'(Missing Bill Morgan Bomb Aimer)'
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Lancasters in the snow
Tags: 463 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Waddington