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- Temporal Coverage starts with "1942"
G A Hubbard’s Royal Canadian Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1659 HCU; 24 OTU; 242 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 437 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Blakehill Farm; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Topcliffe; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Turner Field, Albany, Ga Book
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; ground crew; Red Cross; sport; training
Bill Foskett’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. (Log Book 1)
Served at RAF Shellingford, Souther Field USA, Cochran…
Bill Foskett’s civilian Pilot Flight Record and Log Book (Log Book 2)
Aircraft flown were…
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; pilot; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training
Order of Services, First Baptist Church
Tags: faith
Naples Italy 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942
Open menu airmen's mess, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth. Captioned 'The only good meal we had in the mess'.
Tags: mess
Naples 1945, Port Elizabeth 1942-3
Four photographs of Port Elizabeth, two of his billet.
Identification kindly…
Harold Wilson's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Distinguished Service Medal; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Jurby; RAF Manby; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Middleton St George; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; training; Wellington
No 103 Squadron Honours board, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth
RH page, four photographs from No 42 ANS, Nov 1942 - March 1943.
Tags: 103 Squadron; aircrew; RAF Elsham Wolds
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
Halifax Leaving on an operation
On the reverse '10 Squadron Halifax 1942 Taking off on operation. Property of Ivan Ure [redacted].
Tags: 10 Squadron; control caravan; Halifax; service vehicle
David Charles Davies' observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 105 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 25 OTU; 57 Squadron; 61 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dominie; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Burn; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Coningsby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Jurby; RAF Manby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; submarine; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Target Token Genoa
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster; navigator
Wismar 12/13 October 1942
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster; searchlight