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- Tags: 18 OTU
Robert Creamer's Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 100 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 1668 HCU; 18 OTU; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Defiant; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Martinet; Mosquito; operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Blyton; RAF Bottesford; RAF Finningley; RAF Grimsby; RAF Leconfield; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Stormy Down; training; Wellington; Whitley
W G Anderson's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 18 OTU; aircrew; Anson; Dominie; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; missing in action; operational training unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Ludford Magna; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Chris Scrimshaw's RAF navigator’s, air bombers and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 18 OTU; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Lancaster; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Finningley; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Worksop; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Derek Carrington Evans' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Yatesbury (2 Radio School), RAF Evanton (8 AGS), RAF Wigtown…
Tags: 18 OTU; 625 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; operational training unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Scampton; RAF Wigtown; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
RAF 18 OTU Bromcote
Item 2 is a photograph of a Wellington in flight.
Item 3 is a sketch for a flight from Bromcote to Yorkshire (Gool), Carlisle, Isle of Man, North…
Interview with Jan Black. One
Tags: 18 OTU; 300 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-Semitism; crash; demobilisation; ethnic or religious minorities; fear; final resting place; Guinea Pig Club; Holocaust; killed in action; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; military service conditions; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Cosford; training; Wellington