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Log Book Extracts
Ralph Freeman's Royal Canadian Air Force pilot’s log book
Richard Starkey’s flying log book for pilots
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 29 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); final resting place; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Desford; RAF Grantham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; RAF Winthorpe; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
George Alexander Mackie’s pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 214 Squadron; aircrew; animal; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); C-47; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; military living conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Oulton; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; training
George Alexander Mackie’s pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 11 OTU; 15 Squadron; 1651 HCU; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Flying Training School; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; love and romance; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Cranfield; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Initial Training Wing Course photograph
Tags: Initial Training Wing; training
No 9 Initial Training Wing
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
Terry Ford’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilot’s flying log book. One
Tags: 1653 HCU; 20 OTU; 75 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Flying Training School; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Dalcross; RAF Desford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Filton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Mepal; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
No 4 Flight No 1 Squadron 10 Initial Training Wing May 1942
The image is taken at the Manor Hotel in Scarborough.
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
Homer Lawson and airmen
Photo 1 is three airmen and two airwomen sitting on the grass in front of a hut.
Photo 2 is seven airmen dressed in flying kit. Homer Lawson is identified with a cross. They are standing on a flat roof in front of a…
Albert Edward Edmunds’ pilots flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 27 OTU; 30 OTU; 608 Squadron; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; B-25; bombing; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Barford St John; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Downham Market; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hixon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Prestwick; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington
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
Jim Tyrie's flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 21 OTU; 77 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lincoln; Meteor; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Chivenor; RAF Cranwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hendon; RAF Khormakser; RAF Lindholme; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Seighford; RAF Shallufa; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watton; RAF Worksop; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; York
Philip Hopgood's RAF Record
Philip Hopgood's Second World War Biography
Tags: 1651 HCU; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 1663 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; RAF Catterick; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Graveley; RAF Kirkham; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF Sealand; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
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…
No 1 Squadron, D Flight, Aberystwyth
Tags: Initial Training Wing; training
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 June 1943 - Feb 1946
B Flight, 3 Squadron, No 21 ITW August 1943
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; RAF Torquay; training
Doug Petty
Photo 2 is a head and shoulders portrait of Doug Petty with a pipe in his mouth, captioned 'Newly commissioned Pilot Officer 1944'.
Five photographs of airmen
Photo 2 is a head and shoulders portrait of an airman in a khaki top, captioned 'Leeming 1944'.
Photos 3 and 4 are two different groups…
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
Geoff Paine's time in the RAF
Tags: 100 Squadron; 105 Squadron; Anson; Cornell; Flying Training School; Harvard; incendiary device; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oxford; RAF Ansty; RAF Bourn; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; Royal Observer Corps; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York