Browse Items (7 total)
- Tags: RAF Cranage
- Type starts with "Text"
RE Wannop's pilot's flying log book. Two
F C Jenkins’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Boston; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; final resting place; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; grief; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; operational training unit; Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
Eric Horace Woods’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; C-47; crash; Hampden; Harrow; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Cranage; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Watton; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; York
If you can't take a joke...
Tags: 622 Squadron; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; H2S; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 109; mechanics engine; military service conditions; Oxford; perception of bombing war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranage; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hednesford; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Paignton; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Silloth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Torquay; RAF Upper Heyford; sanitation; Stirling; strafing; training; Wellington; Whitley
Peter Stevens' pilot's flying log book
Tags: 144 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; forced landing; Hampden; Harvard; mine laying; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Ansty; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranage; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Shawbury; RAF Upper Heyford; shot down; Tiger Moth; training
David Maltby's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Paignton; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training