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- Tags: RAF Metheringham
Richard Starkey’s flying log book for pilots
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 29 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); final resting place; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Desford; RAF Grantham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; RAF Winthorpe; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
The Crew
'Vic' Prettejohns replaced original Flight engineer. Underneath is annotated the crew's names and positions.…
The Horry Brothers Memoir
There is a short memoir about Frank and a longer memoir about Freddie.
There are three stories about different operations.
James Calman
Tags: 106 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Metheringham
Hurricane
Tags: Hurricane; RAF Metheringham; training
T Sgt John Dyer
Newspaper cutting 'Missing airman's grave found' and photograph of J H Dyer grave cross
Aubrey Read
List of Aubrey Read's crew
Condolence letter to Aubrey Read's mother
Telegram to Aubrey Read's mother
Letter to Aubrey Read's mother from the Air Ministry
Four photographs of RAF men
RAF personnel
RAF personnel
Tags: aircrew; animal; observer; RAF Metheringham
Wing Commander R E Baxter
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Metheringham
RAF Metheringham
Aubrey Read’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Defiant; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Metheringham; RAF Saltby; RAF Syerston; RAF Walney Island; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Royal visit and Wing Commander Baxter
Airmen
Tags: aircrew; animal; RAF Metheringham