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- Tags: Air Gunnery School
Henry Moss's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 138 Squadron; 1669 HCU; 26 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; 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 Langar; RAF Pembrey; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wing; training; Wellington
Air gunners course photograph
Tags: air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; pilot; RAF Evanton; training
Air gunners course photograph
Tags: air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; RAF Evanton; training
George Dunmore’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying log book
William Shaw’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 37 Squadron; aerial photograph; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Aqir; RAF Evanton; RAF Shallufa; RAF Yatesbury; target photograph; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; York
John Harrison’s navigator’s, air gunner’s and air bomber’s flying log book
George Ellams, Flying Log book
Tags: 100 Group; 11 OTU; 199 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 95 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; B-25; C-47; Defiant; Lancaster; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Alness; RAF Dalcross; RAF Manston; RAF North Creake; RAF Oulton; Stirling; Sunderland; training; wireless operator; York
Flying Officer A. Bonney’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 142 Squadron; 21 OTU; 31 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Hudson; Martinet; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Shenington; training; Warsaw airlift (4 August - 28 September 1944); Wellington
Ronald Gard’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 463 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
Peter Lovatt's navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Richard Curnock’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
My War Story
Tags: 1664 HCU; 22 OTU; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lynching; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cosford; RAF Dalcross; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elvington; RAF Gaydon; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Inverness; RAF Manston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Red Cross; sanitation; service vehicle; sport; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
RAF Pembrey No 1 Air Gunnery School
Tags: air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; RAF Pembrey; training
Frank Simpson's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Two groups of Trainee Airmen
Photo 1 is a group of 65 airmen arranged in five rows. Some of the men are identified with handwritten annotations: Ernie, Brock, Bob, Tete, Ted, and Val. It is captioned 'No 10 AGS Walney Island 1943'.
Photo 2 is a…
Alexander Lamb's Operational Diary
Anson in the Air
Tags: air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; RAF Stormy Down; training
12 Airmen
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
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
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
Gunnery School South Wales
Geoff Packham's Record of Service
Tags: 1667 HCU; 18 OTU; 550 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; RAF Acklington; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Cardington; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hurn; RAF Lindholme; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Torquay; RAF Wilmslow; RAF Worksop; training
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
Ronald G Britt’s navigator’s air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 28 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Greenock; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wymeswold; Sunderland; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington