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Procedures and Life of an Air Gunner with a Lancaster Squadron
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; meteorological officer; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
F Dray’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 1667 HCU; 30 OTU; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Ingham; RAF Sandtoft; training; Wellington
World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington; Window
V Group News, April 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; radar; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
Lancaster over London
Captioned: 'Legends of the past united as the RAF's last flying Lancaster cruises above Nelson's column during a nostalgic flight…
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Lancaster over London
Air to ground photograph of Lancaster over Trafalgar Square with Nelson's column in centre. Writes how sound of Lancaster's Merlin…
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The last take off, RAF Farewell to Lancasters
Top - newspaper cutting the 'Last Take-off - RAF says goodbye to "the Lanc"' with photograph of airborne Lancaster. Describes how last Lancaster made last operational flight - a tour of Coastal Command…
Last of the line
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster
Southwark 'Pathfinder' on goodwill mission
Bottom right - Arthur Pearce leaning out of the rear door of a Lancaster rear turret which is rotated fully to port.
Bottom left - newspaper cutting title 'Southwark "Pathfinder" on…
35 Squadron Lancasters
Bottom left - ground to air view of formation of 12 Spitfires followed by one six Mosquito aircraft . Building bottom right.…
Tags: 35 Squadron; Lancaster; Mosquito; Spitfire
Goodwill flyer marries
Right - inverted air-to-air view of six Lancasters in echelon formation with clouds in background.
British visitors
Bottom left - oblique aerial photograph Lake Tappan, New Jersey.
Centre - newspaper cutting with photograph of 16 Lancasters lined up on hard-standing. There…
35 Squadron Lancasters
Middle left - line of Lancasters in light paint scheme lined up on airfield.
Middle right - air-to-air view head on of a Lancaster in light paint scheme taken from…
Le Courrier de l'Air #15
John Ormerod’s flight engineers flying log book. Incomplete
Harold Blow’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 29 OTU; 9 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Flying Training School; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Meteor; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carlisle; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; RAF Sywell; RAF Tangmere; RAF Winthorpe; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
35 Squadron Lancasters
Bottom left - air-to-air view of two Lancasters in formation over water.
Bottom middle - side view of Lancaster squadron letters TL in front of a hangar.
Bottom right…
Tags: 35 Squadron; aerial photograph; Lancaster
Twenty Lancasters
Goodwill tour of United States
Top right above - an…
Goodwill visit to United States
Article states that 16 Lancasters of 35 Pathfinder Squadron will arrive 27 July 1946 on three day visit to Denver area. They arrived in the United States at Mitchel Field New…
Bombs, hills and coastline
1. Target photograph showing three bombs falling towards cloud and fields. There is no caption to identify the target.
2. Target photograph. The ground is mostly obscured by…
London Victory day flypast and Arthur Pearce
Middle left - air-to-air view of five Lancasters in formation over city of London. River Thames runs left to right through middle. Tail…
Tags: 35 Squadron; Lancaster
People and events
Bottom left - air-to-air view of Lancaster over London city with river Thames top right.
Bottom middle - Arthur Pearce…
Tags: 156 Squadron; hangar; Lancaster