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- Tags: 218 Squadron
Reminiscences of service in the Royal Air Force - 1937 to 1945
Tags: 115 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 27 OTU; 3 Group; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; forced landing; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; Magister; Me 110; military living conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Benson; RAF Farnborough; RAF Harwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marham; RAF Ringway; RAF Sealand; RAF Sywell; RAF Tangmere; RAF Weston Zoyland; Stranraer; Sunderland; Swordfish; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Walrus; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with David Vandervord
Regensburg
Conversation with David Vandervord
Wellington
Tags: 218 Squadron; RAF Marham; Wellington
Six aircrew
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; nose art; pilot; Wellington
David Vandervord’s Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book
Flying Officer Albert Oswald Mann
Norman Piercy - Research Notes
Tags: 101 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 405 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 8 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Alconbury; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Transcript of an interview with Ron Brown
Tags: 1653 HCU; 218 Squadron; 75 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; flight engineer; ground crew; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; P-40; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF St Athan; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; training
List of Ron Brown's operation on 218 Squadron and 75 Squadron
Tags: 218 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Mepal; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Charles Hilder's observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1665 HCU; 218 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Blenheim; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Downham Market; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RCAF Lethbridge; RCAF Winnipeg; Stirling; training; Wellington
Order of Service for Memorial Service for Flight Sergeant Kenneth Rutherford
Summary of Bob Butler's RAF career
Tags: 11 OTU; 218 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Blenheim; Bombing and Gunnery School; Distinguished Flying Medal; Hampden; killed in action; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Jurby; RAF Marham; RAF Newmarket; RAF Scampton; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; training; Wellington
Bob Butler's Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book
Served at RAF Jurby, RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Newmarket, RAF Waterbeach, RAF…
Tags: 11 OTU; 218 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; Hampden; Ju 88; Me 110; missing in action; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Jurby; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Newmarket; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Bertie Salvage
Letter from wing commander, commanding, 218 Squadron to Bob Butler's sister
Letter from wing commander, commanding, 218 Squadron to Bob Butler's sister
Letter from wing commander, commanding, 218 Squadron to Bob Butler's mother
Letter from the padre RAF Downham Market to Bob Butler's mother
Telegram from commanding officer 218 squadron to Bob Butler's sister
Tags: 218 Squadron; missing in action
Telegram from commanding officer 218 squadron to Bob Butler's mother
Tags: 218 Squadron; missing in action
Letter from Wing Commander, Commanding, 218 Squadron to Bob Butler's sister
Tags: 218 Squadron
Letter from Wing Commander Commanding 218 Squadron to Bob Butler's sister
'They are:-
S/Ldr. C. Raymond. Mrs. C. Raymond (Wife)
P/O. P.F.W. Gales. Mr. F.L. Gales (Father)
F/O. A.J. Calvert. Mrs. Calvert (Wife)
Sgt. L. Kelly. …