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- Tags: 214 Squadron
15 Squadron Wyton, 1651 HCU Waterbeach and 214 Squadron operations
214 Squadron and Stirling
Annotated on reverse 'BBMF: 532'.
Tags: 214 Squadron; aircrew; Stirling
214 Squadron parade
Tags: 214 Squadron; RAF Feltwell
561197 Warrant Officer Charles Eade (Bill) Lutwyche
Tags: 114 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; killed in action; mid-air collision; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bicester; RAF Eastchurch; RAF Finningley; RAF Halton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Leuchars; RAF Oulton; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Thornaby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wattisham; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wyton; training; Wellington
620 Squadron
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 11 OTU; 1660 HCU; 1668 HCU; 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 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 Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Boston; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; final resting place; Flying Training School; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; grief; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Woodhall Spa; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
A E Travell’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1657 HCU; 1660 HCU; 214 Squadron; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Defiant; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Dalcross; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Marham; RAF Stradishall; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Stirling; training; Wellington
Air Gunner
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Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 105 Squadron; 114 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 1665 HCU; 18 Squadron; 180 Squadron; 2 Group; 208 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 301 Squadron; 304 Squadron; 342 Squadron; 6 Group; 6 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; 90 Squadron; 97 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Boston; Caterpillar Club; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; evading; final resting place; Gee; Gneisenau; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Horsa; Hurricane; Ju 87; killed in action; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Me 109; Meteor; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bottesford; RAF Bourn; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Bramcote; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coltishall; RAF Drem; RAF Driffield; RAF Duxford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Fairford; RAF Finningley; RAF Great Massingham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kenley; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Leconfield; RAF Leuchars; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Newmarket; RAF Newton; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pershore; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Sleap; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tilstock; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Raynham; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; Resistance; Scharnhorst; Special Operations Executive; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
Airman and Wellington
Tags: 214 Squadron; crash; nose art; RAF Stradishall; Wellington
Alan Gwilliam’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. One
Tags: 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Flying Training School; Gneisenau; Initial Training Wing; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Brough; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Heany; RAF Honington; RAF Kumalo; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodley; Scharnhorst; training; Wellington
An Account of my Experiences in the RAF during my Long Service of 41 Years
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 215 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; fitter engine; Flying Training School; ground crew; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; meteorological officer; military service conditions; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Brough; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dishforth; RAF Driffield; RAF Halton; RAF Leconfield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Manston; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Coates; RAF Scampton; RAF Sealand; RAF Worthy Down; sport; Tirpitz; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Arthur Mace's diary 8th January 1942 to 15th March 1944
There is a second diary for 1943 only and its contents are identical to the first diary.
A third diary covers 1944.
Tags: 214 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bombing; Botha; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; Halifax; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; medical officer; mess; mine laying; missing in action; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Driffield; RAF Evanton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lasham; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Yatesbury; searchlight; sport; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Baling Out - Douglas Waters' Escape
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Three
The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.
Tags: 100 Group; 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Honington; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Oulton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Shipdham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodbridge; Stearman; Stirling; superstition; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Bill Foskett’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot (Log Book 3)
Tags: 15 OTU; 1657 HCU; 214 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Harwell; RAF Millom; RAF Sculthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington; Window
Book 5, Return to UK
Tags: 115 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 1678 HCU; 196 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 30 OTU; 514 Squadron; 623 Squadron; 90 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Catalina; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fear; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 110; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Seighford; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Red Cross; sanitation; searchlight; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Brief summary of Geoff Shattock's 16 operations March to July 1943
Tags: 214 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; Stirling
Conversation with Lucian Ercolani
Tags: 214 Squadron; 355 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; Flying Training School; Lysander; pilot; RAF Newmarket; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Watchfield; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Conversations with Norman Didwell
Tags: 214 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 3 Group; 40 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Beaufighter; C-47; escaping; fitter airframe; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; killed in action; Manchester; Me 110; mechanics airframe; Mosquito; petrol bowser; prisoner of war; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF Waterbeach; service vehicle; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; tractor; Wellington
Douglas Wilmott Waters
Tags: 214 Squadron; 3 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; Lysander; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunsfold; RAF Harwell; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Yatesbury; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Douglas Wilmott Waters CPM
Tags: 214 Squadron; 3 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; crash; crewing up; Dulag Luft; final resting place; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; Lysander; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Dunsfold; RAF Harwell; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Yatesbury; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; strafing; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Ex-RCAF The Camp Jan 1990
Tags: 10 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 4 Group; 40 Squadron; 405 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 415 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 424 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 429 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 433 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; Caterpillar Club; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Dulag Luft; escaping; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Halifax; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; Military Cross; navigator; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Alconbury; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Digby; RAF Hendon; RAF St Eval; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stirling; strafing; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley
Four Airmen
Tags: 100 Group; 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; RAF Oulton; wireless operator
Four airmen and Lancaster
Tags: 214 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster; navigator; wireless operator