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- Tags: RAF Elsham Wolds
Navigation chart for Operation Dodge
Navigation chart showing Geoff Blamire's bombing targets
Tags: 103 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Elsham Wolds
Navigation chart with bombing target tracks
Aircrew and Geoff with a crew that he flew with
Australian twin brothers and…
Tags: 103 Squadron; aircrew; Halifax; Lancaster; RAF Blyton; RAF Elsham Wolds; training
'Old Mike Squared' and Cape Town
Vire and Cape Town
Cahagnes
Target photograph and receipt
TIs can…
Sangatte and course photograph
No 103 Squadron leaders and Geoff is awarded his navigators badge
Tags: 103 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Elsham Wolds; training
Some Elsham Wold staff. No 6 course leaving celebrations
RH…
No 103 Squadron Honours board, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth
RH page, four photographs from No 42 ANS, Nov 1942 - March 1943.
Tags: 103 Squadron; aircrew; RAF Elsham Wolds
Robert Blamires' South African Air Force observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 57 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Wymeswold; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Francis Rooke’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book.
Tags: 100 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 214 Squadron; 37 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RCAF Moncton; Tiger Moth; training
The Last Flight of Francis Hosier
Fancy Dress at Elsham Wolds 1944
On the reverse -
'Fancy Dress at Elsham Wolds 1944
Taken on WAAF site
l to r
Gladys Keeling, Grace ? Joan Fletcher Betty Hassett, Win ?
Joan Rooke (Fletcher) [redacted]'.
Emden
It is captioned '561 E.W.S. 19.6.45. //15.00. 14.29. Emden F/L Henry RE176'.
On the reverse 'Emden' and 'Mrs J Rooke [redacted]'.
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; RAF Elsham Wolds
Mike Squared - operational record holder
Lancaster painting
On the reverse -
'My aircraft
Q for Queenie
or
Q - Quadriga (4 horse chariot)
100 Sqdn
Elsham Wolds
Call sign - Shopboy from
-Curlwig Q Queenie'.
Interview with Kenneth Ivan Duddell
Ken joined the RAF in January 1942 and qualified as a flight engineer in July 1943 at RAF St Athans. He passed through a number to RAF Stations before they were…
Interview with Cliff Thorpe and Roy Smith
Tags: childhood in wartime; crash; Halifax; RAF Elsham Wolds
interview with John Tomlinson
Tags: RAF Elsham Wolds
Interview with Allan Holmes
More about Mike Squared
Jack Whymark’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Initial training at No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School and 225 Squadron. Posted to 149 Squadron for…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 225 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; evacuation; Harrow; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lysander; Martinet; mine laying; missing in action; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Glatton; RAF Ingham; RAF Kabrit; RAF Manby; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Syerston; RAF Tilshead; RAF West Freugh; training; Wellington