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- Tags: 7 Squadron
- Type is exactly "Text. Memoir"
The lucky crew
Tags: 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; Spitfire; Stirling; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Operational notes
Tags: 514 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Master Bomber; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window
They Refused to Fly
A second article titled 'Norton Camp, Sheffield' is about a punishment camp where the writer was sent after cycling…