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- Tags: searchlight
Men and a searchlight
Tags: civil defence; searchlight
Details operation to Dusseldorf 25/26 May 1943
Mere Gen March 1944
V Group News, July 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; pilot; radar; rivalry; searchlight; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; wireless operator
Battle damaged Wellington
Photo 2 is two airmen inspecting the damaged fabric at the tail of a Wellington.
Tours
Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photograph taken during the bombing of Tours. Explosions can be seen and a…
Bonn
Photo 3 is slightly later and shows large fires gaining control. Cologne is at the top left of…
Dornier DO 217 J2 and N2
Photo 2 is a DO 217 N2, port side on the ground. Similar to the J2 but with different engines.
Tags: Do 217; radar; searchlight
Frankfurt and Calais
Photograph one, Frankfurt at night, is indecipherable. Captioned 'a brilliant spectacle of searchlights, flak sparks and puffs, glowing incendiaries and target indicators'.
Photograph two is taken…
Duisburg
Photo 1 is a daylight image with all the details obscured by explosions…
Flying Control Logbook
Tags: air sea rescue; bombing; RAF Tholthorpe; searchlight
Recommendation for award of Distinguished Flying Medal
Story of the last few minutes of JB529, DX-F
Personal Report No 7 on Operational Flight
Bodenorganisation Großraum-Nachtjagd Luftflotte Reich
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; searchlight
Box file cover for album in memory of Flight Sergeant Peter Raeburn Jenkinson DFM
Main Ops - with crew only
Tags: 12 Squadron; 626 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); ground crew; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 109; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; P-51; Pathfinders; searchlight; Spitfire; superstition; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Bomber Command report on night operations - night 3/4 May 1944
Night photograph and Whitley
Tags: 102 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; searchlight; Whitley
Berlin
Searchlight homing
Tags: searchlight; training
Rose turret poster
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; searchlight
Guns Massed Miles Deep in Desperate Defence of Ruhr
Route map - Ludwigshafen and Osterfeld
Tags: 195 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Witchford; searchlight
Searchlight Control Notes
Tags: radar; searchlight; training