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- Tags: 106 Squadron
Admiral Shyte-Awk
Below - explanation that Admiral Shyte-Awk was the aircraft…
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Lancaster; nose art; pilot; superstition
Interview with Eric Brown
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Lancaster; Stirling
Interview with William Bullock
Interview with John Harrison
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; heavy conversion unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with David Jackson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 95 Squadron; aircrew; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); fitter engine; flight engineer; ground crew; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; Sunderland; training; Victoria Cross
Interview with James Swaffield
106 Squadron crest
Tags: 106 Squadron
Letter from Air Ministry to Aubrey Read's mother
Interview with Johnny Johnson.Three
Interview with Ken Oatley
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Mervyn Jones
Tags: 106 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Swinderby; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with James Albert Dellow
Letter to Robert Wareing from Elizabeth McDowell and four aircrew and a Hampden of 106 Squadron (code ZN)
Enclosed is a photograph of four aircrew behind a…
Tags: 106 Squadron; Hampden
Ex-RCAF The Camp July 1983
Tags: 102 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 4 Group; 405 Squadron; 415 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 429 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 433 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Catalina; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; navigator; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Driffield; RAF Leeming; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Tholthorpe; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 7; Victoria Cross; wireless operator / air gunner
Ron's rogues gallery
Tags: 106 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Manchester; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Interview with Colin Wood
Interview with Ronald Needle
Interview with Lester Simms
Aubrey Read’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Defiant; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Metheringham; RAF Saltby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Andy Anderson's flying log book for pilots (incomplete)
Tags: 106 Squadron; 83 Squadron; bombing; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; RAF Warboys; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
Colin Wood's Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 106 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Dominie; H2S; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Bitteswell; RAF Coningsby; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; RAF Warboys; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
Sydney Grimes' observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; Wellington; wireless operator
Peter Hattersley's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; C-47; Catalina; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; Harvard; Hudson; Lysander; Magister; navigator; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF Shawbury; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Upavon; RAF Waddington; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington