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- Tags: Lancaster
Interview with Eric William Harrison
Tags: 1653 HCU; 195 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; fear; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military discipline; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hullavington; RAF Kirkham; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Locking; RAF Manby; RAF St Athan; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training
Memoirs of Jim Cahir
The Avro Repair Organisation. Langar
Lancaster PB873 'Thor'
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; nose art
Peter Banting’s Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 7 Squadron; 75 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Oakley; RAF Warboys; RAF Westcott; Stirling; training; Wellington
J Barnes’ pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1660 HCU; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Netheravon; RAF Staverton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upavon; RAF Watton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
John Derek Bolton’s Pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 16 OTU; 162 Squadron; 25 OTU; 29 OTU; 455 Squadron; 571 Squadron; 608 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; bombing; C-47; Cook’s tour; Defiant; Flying Training School; Hampden; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bourn; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cranwell; RAF Downham Market; RAF Finningley; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Warboys; RAF Watchfield; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington; Whitley
John Derek Bolton’s pilots log book. Two
Tags: aircrew; Lancaster; Lancastrian; pilot; RAF Kenley; Tiger Moth; York
Fred Say Biography
Rex Searle's flying log book.
Tags: 120 Squadron; 1666 HCU; 206 Squadron; 210 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 47 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; RAF Abingdon; RAF Colerne; RAF Dishforth; RAF East Moor; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Wombleton; Shackleton; training
Airmen Group and Lancaster
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster; nose art
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 1668 HCU; 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); 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 Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Boston; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; final resting place; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; grief; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
Peter Hazeldene memoir
Flt Lt J B P 'Tuesday' Spencer, 20 years, Pilot from Greenside, Co Durham
Sgt W D E West, 21 years, Mid Upper Gunner, from Barking, Essex
Sgt H…
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; flight engineer; heirloom; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Husbands Bosworth; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Peter Hazeldene's Log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lysander; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Alexander Lamb’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 14 OTU; 15 Squadron; 1654 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Two airmen in cockpit
A second copy of the image is annotated 'Local Flying 45 myself & Skipper'.
Pilot in Lancaster dual control cockpit
Tags: aircrew; Lancaster; military service conditions; pilot
Lancaster rear turret
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Mildenhall
Four airmen and a Lancaster
Tags: 15 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Wyton
Lancaster in the air
Tags: 15 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Wyton
Lancasters over Lowestoft
Tags: 15 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster
Six airmen sitting on a Lancaster
2Doc" Watson
"Ang"
Ernie Murwald
Tich Collier (WOP) How did he get in there?
Jimmy Palmer
Johnny Weston'.
Tags: 15 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster; wireless operator
Six airmen on a Lancaster
A second copy is annotated 'Rear Gunner Skipper F/Eng Midgunner B/Aimer W/Op Nav on leave'.