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- Tags: 12 Squadron
Letter to Teddy Cosgrove's Father
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; RAF Binbrook
Large Group of Airmen
Campaign to recognise deaths of bomber airmen
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; memorial; RAF Binbrook; Wellington
Teddy's Career in the RAFVR 9th September 1939 - 11th October 1941
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Defiant; ditching; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; meteorological officer; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; operational training unit; pilot; propaganda; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Tain; RAF Wickenby; sport; Stirling; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Service history of Sergeant Alfred Edward "Teddy" Cosgrove
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; final resting place; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF Ringway; RAF Tain; RAF Wickenby; sport; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Crew of Wellington Z8397
Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Operational Notes from 12 Squadron
Eric Foinette's memoir
Ken Calton's flying log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 3 Group; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 7 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Blyton; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Graveley; RAF Oakington; RAF Pembrey; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; RAF Witchford; training; York
Jim Taylor's RAF Memoirs 1932-1939
Reminiscence of a Flight Engineer's Night to Remember 55 Years Ago
Operations in the Aden Protectorate and Air Operations Round Aden
Tags: 12 Squadron; 8 Squadron; bombing
Aerial View of Robat
12 Squadron's Move from Khormaksar to Robat
No 12(B) Squadron, Robat, Aden
In a second copy 'JT'…
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel
Oliver Bell's log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 8 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; ground personnel; pilot; RAF Cranwell; training
RAF Badges cigarette card collection
Tags: 104 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 18 Squadron; 20 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 23 Squadron; 25 Squadron; 27 Squadron; 28 Squadron; 31 Squadron; 32 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 40 Squadron; 43 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 66 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; RAF Abingdon; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Calshot; RAF Catterick; RAF Duxford; RAF Farnborough; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Kenley; RAF Marham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF North Weald; RAF Northolt; RAF Odiham; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 18 OTU; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evading; FIDO; Gee; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; operational training unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Manston; RAF Methwold; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Maurice Snowball's Royal Air Force Flying Log Book for Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s, Air Gunner’s and Flight Engineers
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 550 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Blyton; RAF North Killingholme; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; training
General Memories
He describes training in London, Bridlington, Morpeth and Wymeswold. Later training as a crew was at Castle Donington, Lindholme and Hemswell. He describes in detail his crew, aircraft and operations.…
Tags: 12 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; escaping; flight engineer; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Martinet; Me 262; military ethos; navigator; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridlington; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morpeth; RAF Tilstock; RAF Wickenby; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wymeswold; superstition; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Lancaster JA865 Form 78
Tags: 12 Squadron; 166 Squadron; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3
Memorials at Lincolnshire Airfields
#1 is 617 squadron memorial at RAF Woodhall Spa.
#2 is 44 squadron memorial at RAF Waddington.
#3 and 4 is a plaque at 'The Wild Life' pub at Skellingthorpe.
#5 is a memorial at East Kirkby.
#6 is a close up of the…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 9 Squadron; final resting place; memorial; RAF Bardney; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Honington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; RAF Woodhall Spa
Time out for war
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 1656 HCU; 3 Group; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Methwold; RAF Sturgate; RAF Torquay; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington