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- Tags: evading
Robert Charles Stephenson Hancock
Ron Riding's Royal Canadian Air Force observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 242 Squadron; 52 Squadron; Air Observers School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; bale out; Battle; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Cook’s tour; evading; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Lancaster; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Dishforth; RAF Lindholme; RAF Northolt; RAF Oakington; RCAF Rivers; Second Tactical Air Force; shot down; Stirling; submarine; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Roy and Claire
Tags: evading
Roy Maddock-Lyon's Danish Identity Card and a map of Blockade Runners Flight Path
Item 2 is a sketch map of Scandanavia and Great Britain with four routes described as 'Blockade Runners'. Captioned…
Tags: evading; Resistance
Roy Maddock-Lyon's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1663 HCU; 1665 HCU; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; Cook’s tour; evading; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; mine laying; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Carnaby; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Athan; shot down; training
Royal Air Force Journal
Shot down and taken prisoner
Shot Down, He took part in French Resistance raids on Germans
[The details in the article are incorrect. His aircraft was a Wellington, it was shot down on…
Silk escape map
Tags: evading
Silk escape map
Tags: evading
Six locations and people in Belgium
Top centre - view down a lane with trees/hedge either side. Captioned 'Lane leading to Mr dr Voegt's house'.
Top right -…
Tags: escaping; evading; memorial; Resistance
Spanish, Frebch, Dutch, and German phrase book
Tags: evading
Targets and A&AEE Boscombe Down
Top left - a note 'got to here'. Top right - an aerial oblique view of a city-scape with some large buildings and some damage visible. Captioned 'Essen' on the reverse 'Essen'.
Middle - an aerial oblique view of a…
The day I reviewed the German army
The Diary of an Airman
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bale out; bomb aimer; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; evading; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; missing in action; navigator; P-47; P-51; pilot; prisoner of war; Resistance; shot down; Typhoon; wireless operator
The Exploits of Warrant Officer Arthur Pritchard
Tags: 463 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); crash; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III
The Journey in Normandy of Mr Ronald H. Riding
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; bale out; evading; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; prisoner of war; Resistance
The Kriegie December 2000
Tags: 37 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bombing; C-47; crash; Dulag Luft; evading; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; Halifax; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 87; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; memorial; mess; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunsfold; RAF Harwell; Red Cross; Scharnhorst; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; the long march; Tiger Moth; Typhoon; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force