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Charles Arthur Hill Darby’s Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 186 Squadron; 622 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Cook’s tour; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Syerston; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
Fred Dunn's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 24 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; training; Whitley
The great raids - Peenemunde 17 August 1943
Book includes:
Handwritten note on front 'In memory of Fred Dunn, killed Nov 22/23 1943'.
Telegram to Mr A C Dunn regretting to inform him that his son Sgt…
Seven aircrew
Fred Dunn
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer
Stirling and crew
Airman sitting on a wall
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer
A bomb aimer
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer
Letter to Jean Welland from Jack Darby
Tags: aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; killed in action; training
J C Cockram and crew
Second and third are the crew posed in front of Halifax 'Jane' on dispersal, servicing equipment in the background.
Fourth is of a Halifax…
Bomber Crew
Harry Whittaker's flying log book
Tags: 148 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 17 OTU; 19 OTU; 35 Squadron; 635 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crash; Goodwill tour of the United States (1946); Halifax; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Magister; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Downham Market; RAF Dumfries; RAF Graveley; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; Whitley
Harry Whittaker DFM
A second has no annotation.
A third copy has ' F/Sgt Whittaker (Bombadier) (Charlie) on the reverse.
A fourth copy…
Seven Airmen
Jack Wainwright's Service and Release Book
Tags: 48 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer
Jack Wainwright's Service Record
Ted Thornhill's Lancaster
Robert Wilfred Hawkes
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer
Robert Wilfred Hawkes' crew
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; pilot; wireless operator
1st Allied Airplane Crashed in Haute-Marne, Bomber Halifax Mk II DT515
Tags: 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; escaping; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Linton on Ouse; Resistance; wireless operator
Report of Stirling Aircraft No W7546T which crash landed 11th September 1942
Letter from Jimmy Doughty to his sister Winnie
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; pilot; training