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- Tags: 106 Squadron
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
Bombed Bremen from 50 feet
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 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
Cadet 1935-1945 Peter D Stevenson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 5 Group; air sea rescue; animal; Blenheim; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crash; entertainment; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Syerston; sanitation; station headquarters; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Malcolm Staves, 207 Squadron Veteran
Tags: 106 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 207 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); entertainment; Lancaster; memorial; Operation Dodge (1945); Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF Madley; RAF Metheringham; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; wireless operator
Interview with Peter Morris
Tags: 106 Squadron; 120 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing up; ground personnel; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lincoln; navigator; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Ronald Needle
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 Lester Simms
Interview with James Swaffield
Interview with Robert Whymark
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 149 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Hurricane; killed in action; Lancaster; missing in action; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Manby; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Syerston; RAF West Freugh; Wellington
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
To Jessie from Harry Redgrave
Eric Horace Woods’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; C-47; crash; Hampden; Harrow; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Cranage; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Watton; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; York
Arthur Young
Norman Jackson's Service Record
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Bits and Pieces from a Long Career
Letter to Mrs H Redgrave from Harry
J Barnes’ pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 106 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Cook’s tour; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Netheravon; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upavon; RAF Watton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Peter Hazeldene memoir
Flt Lt J B P 'Tuesday' Spencer, 20 years, Pilot from Greenside, Co Durham
Sgt W D E West, 21 years, Mid Upper Gunner, from Barking, Essex
Sgt H…
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; flight engineer; heirloom; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Husbands Bosworth; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Peter Hazeldene's Log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Hampden; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lysander; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
The Kriegie June 1995
Tags: 106 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Beaufighter; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; escaping; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; George Cross; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; memorial; Military Cross; prisoner of war; RAF Alconbury; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Honington; Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; the long march; Victoria Cross; wireless operator
The Kriegie December 2005
Tags: 10 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 544 Squadron; 601 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; arts and crafts; bale out; Caterpillar Club; civil defence; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); escaping; flight engineer; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Halifax; Hampden; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); killed in action; Lancaster; memorial; mess; Mosquito; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Benson; RAF Duxford; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Northolt; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalag Luft 7; the long march
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