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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1941-06"
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Jack Whymark’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Initial training at No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School and 225 Squadron. Posted to 149 Squadron for…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 225 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; evacuation; Harrow; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lysander; Martinet; mine laying; missing in action; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Glatton; RAF Ingham; RAF Kabrit; RAF Manby; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Syerston; RAF Tilshead; RAF West Freugh; training; Wellington
Pilot wins D.F.C
Middle and bottom, congratulations to Bob on his award.
Right page; top, title of the Vauxhall Mirror.
Middle, report of Bob's operational career…
Interview with Les Rutherford
Bob Keeling
Tags: 51 Squadron; crash; killed in action; RAF Dishforth; RAF Usworth; Whitley
My Wartime Memories by Richard Yates
Tags: 19 OTU; 35 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; bale out; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Dominie; Dulag Luft; forced landing; Gneisenau; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; love and romance; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Jurby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Scharnhorst; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Appendix I. Malta dockyard - period of siege 1940-1943
Tags: bombing
Harold Wigley's RAF Pilot's Log Book
The first flight is recorded at No 7 EFTS , Desford flying in the Tiger Moth, he remained there until 28 September when he moved to No 12 SFTS flying in the Anson. In January 1941 Harold…
Letter to F Ditchford's father from RAF Record Office
Tags: aircrew; killed in action; missing in action
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war
Letter to Les Pickford's Mother from 139 Squadron
Tags: 139 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; RAF Oulton; Red Cross
Letter to Les Pickford's Father from the RAF Benevolent Fund
Tags: aircrew; missing in action
Letter to Les Pickford's Father from CH Cahill
Les Pickford's observers and air gunners flying log book. One
Tags: 101 Squadron; 104 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 17 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; C-47; Dominie; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; York
Letter to Les Pickford's Mother
Tags: aircrew; missing in action
Luftpost, 11, 29 July 1941
Despite earlier army reports being reliable, it is claimed that there is now German disinformation concerning the Russian campaign and the high number of casualties and prisoners.
After spotting a battle cruiser on 22nd July, an RAF…
Report on my foreign service project August 1941 - April 1942
Tags: 102 Squadron; B-24; crash; Halifax; killed in action; RAF Pocklington