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- Tags: RAF North Creake
Walter Braithwaite’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1652 HCU; 171 Squadron; 21 OTU; 24 OTU; 77 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Elvington; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF North Creake; RAF St Eval; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Whitley
The Offensive Phase
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 169 Squadron; 171 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crash; Defiant; Do 217; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; Me 410; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Downham Market; RAF Farnborough; RAF Foulsham; RAF Little Snoring; RAF North Creake; RAF Northolt; RAF Oulton; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swannington; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; Scharnhorst; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; Tirpitz; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
T Knox’s flying log book for flight engineers
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 199 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Lancaster; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Aqir; RAF Cosford; RAF Finningley; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Methwold; RAF North Creake; RAF Ringway; RAF Sealand; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upper Heyford; Stirling; training
Station Battle Orders for two Mandrel Force operations
Tags: 171 Squadron; 199 Squadron; RAF North Creake
Squadron Photograph
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Sandy Christison's Log Book
Tags: 1658 HCU; 171 Squadron; 76 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); C-47; flight engineer; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF North Creake; RAF Riccall; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Window
Radar counter measures operation
Tags: 199 Squadron; aircrew; Halifax; navigator; RAF North Creake
Programme for disbandment ceremony of 171 and 199 Squadrons
Programme for 199 and 171 Squadron disbandment ceremony
Notes about operations on Lancaster
Letter to Sandy Christison's Mother
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Ken Thompson's first car and second crew
Second and third pictures, same car, somewhat battered, parked on road, houses in distance, captioned 'Topcliffe,…
Keith Thompson's second tour crew
Keith Thompson's flying log book
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1659 HCU; 1662 HCU; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 28 OTU; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Foulsham; RAF Hixon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF North Creake; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Watton; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wymeswold; Shackleton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Keith Thompson diary 1945
Interview with Steven Ellams
Interview with Roy Berrill
After the Air Training Corps, Roy was called up to be a…
Interview with Gordon Mercier
Tags: 100 Group; 14 OTU; 171 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; animal; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; civil defence; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; FIDO; Halifax; Home Guard; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military discipline; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Dunsfold; RAF North Creake; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; RAF Stormy Down; searchlight; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; Whitley
Interview with Dennis James Gill
Interview with David Butler
Interview with Bernie How
Halifax
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Tags: Halifax; RAF North Creake
Gordon Mercier's navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 171 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Fw 190; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Marston Moor; RAF North Creake; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Whitley
George Ellams, Flying Log book
Tags: 100 Group; 11 OTU; 199 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 95 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; B-25; C-47; Defiant; Lancaster; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Operational Training Unit; promotion; RAF Alness; RAF Dalcross; RAF Manston; RAF North Creake; RAF Oulton; Stirling; Sunderland; training; wireless operator; York
Crew of Halifax NA 108
Tags: 171 Squadron; aircrew; Halifax; RAF North Creake