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- Tags: RAF Upper Heyford
- Type is exactly "Photograph"
Sergeant Reginald Frederick (Roly) Roberts
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 66 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bomb aimer; bomb trolley; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; briefing; crash; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Gneisenau; ground crew; ground personnel; Hampden; Harrow; killed in action; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Upper Heyford; recruitment; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Wellington and four aircrew
Second is of four aircrew standing under a palm tree, captioned 'Bari Italy October 1945, Under the swaying palms'.
The third is missing, this was…
John Joyner's scrap book
Many of the entries are post war and a number refer…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; entertainment; flight engineer; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training; wireless operator
Flying Officer Arthur S Woolf - RAF career and experiences in WW2
Covers joining the RAF at age 19 and training at…
Tags: 5 Group; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; Guinea Pig Club; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; promotion; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wroughton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator
Terence Leedham's life
Thirteen navigators
Memoir by Arthur Hollis
Tags: 5 BFTS; 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; British Flying Training School Program; civil defence; Distinguished Flying Cross; Harvard; Home Guard; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Oxford; pilot; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Turweston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Westcott; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Stearman; Tiger force; training; Wellington