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- Tags: nose art
Landing Halifax
Halifax Popeye's Purge
Tags: 78 Squadron; bombing; Halifax; nose art
Geoffrey Green and crew
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Two aircrew in front of a Hampden
Tags: 106 Squadron; aircrew; Hampden; nose art; pilot
12 Airmen and Lancaster 'A'
Six airmen in front of a Stirling
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Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; nose art; Stirling
Pilot Flying Officer John Harvey
Tags: 625 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; nose art; pilot; RAF Kelstern
Frank Allnutt and crew after their last operation
Halifax 'City of London'
21 airmen are…
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; nose art
Halifax 'Beryle'
The nose art is a cartoon of a woman, painted 'Tak Yer Time I'm Easy'. 56 bombs are painted on. Under the cockpit is 'Beryle'.
There is a…
Halifax Nose Art
Tags: 420 Squadron; Halifax; nose art
Smitty, Nose Artist
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; nose art
Smitty Putting another Bomb On
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; nose art
I Flew with Nine Wing Commanders
Tags: 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; debriefing; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; Do 217; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 3; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; promotion; RAF Cosford; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RAF Tilstock; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; target photograph; training; Whitley; Window
Sqdn/Ldr Villiers and crew
The first is of the crew with Lancaster ED548 squadron letter V, airfield and aircraft servicing equipment in the background.
Second is…
Six aircrew and eight ground crew
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Tags: aircrew; dispersal; ground crew; ground personnel; nose art; Wellington
Account of operations
Description of operational flying
Copy of Peter Potter's flying log book
Tags: 30 OTU; 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); fear; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 262; military ethos; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; Operational Training Unit; RAF Hixon; RAF Pembrey; RAF Wickenby; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
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
Conversion to 4 engines and posting
Tags: 626 Squadron; Halifax; Lancaster; nose art; RAF Hemswell; RAF Wickenby; training
A retrospective - Bomber Command No 625 Squadron
Tags: 1 Group; 625 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; intelligence officer; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; P-51; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Kelstern; RAF Millom; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; searchlight; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force