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- Tags: RAF Riccall
Airmen
Top left centre - half length image of two airmen wearing battledress. The one on the left has pilot's brevet and peaked cap.
Top centre right - four…
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Riccall; service vehicle
Airmen and newspaper cutting
Bottom left - three-quarter length image of an airman wearing tunic and smoking a cigarette. Trees in…
People
Top right - half-length image on a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Bottom left - full length image of an airman wearing tunic and side cap standing…
Halifax
Halifax R9430 being test-flown by Squadron Leader P Dobson to determine the rate of height loss while flying on one engine.
Seven aircrew
Seven aircrew
John Louis Goldby Biography
Tags: 10 OTU; 38 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Ford; RAF Henlow; RAF Jurby; RAF Kenley; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Odiham; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Swinderby; RAF Topcliffe; Shackleton; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
Record of service
Tags: 158 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 19 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lissett; RAF Riccall; RAF Shawbury; RAF Upavon; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
P J Hogan general conduct sheet
Training, non-operational and operational details
Donald Fraser's navigator's, air bomber's, air gunner's flying log book
Letter from Terry Ford to his parents
Interview with Bill Harvey
Interview with Thomas Aiden Davidson
List of Ray Wells' RAF Stations
Hastie DFC: The Life and Times of a Wartime Pilot
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 157 Squadron; 2 Group; 214 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; 85 Squadron; 88 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Bismarck; Botha; C-47; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evacuation; Flying Training School; Gee; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; love and romance; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; Proctor; radar; RAF Banff; RAF Catfoss; RAF Catterick; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Farnborough; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leuchars; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF North Coates; RAF Oulton; RAF Padgate; RAF Prestwick; RAF Riccall; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Thornaby; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Windrush; RAF Woodbridge; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Philip Hopgood's Second World War Biography
Tags: 1651 HCU; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 1663 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; RAF Catterick; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Graveley; RAF Kirkham; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF Sealand; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Interview with Arthur Nicholson
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); prisoner of war; RAF Bridlington; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; RAF St Athan; RAF Usworth; sanitation; shot down; training
Interview with William Hubert Allen
Tags: 10 OTU; 102 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; mid-air collision; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF Yatesbury; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Letter from Mervyn Adder to his brother Alex
Interview with Ken Hayton
Interview with John Henry Thomas
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; Fw 190; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Mosquito; P-47; P-51; padre; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; searchlight; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wellington
JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RCAF Rivers; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force