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- Tags: 426 Squadron
Conversation with Heinz Rökke & Jack Bromfield
Tags: 100 Group; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; 408 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; anti-Semitism; bale out; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; decoy site; Do 217; evading; FIDO; Fw 190; Halifax; He 111; Ju 87; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Me 163; Me 262; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cranfield; RAF Elvington; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Pocklington; Schräge Musik; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stirling; target indicator; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Observer's and air gunner's flying log book for Geoffrey Gosney. One
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1664 HCU; 227 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 462 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Battle; bombing; Defiant; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Halifax Mk 7; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Aqir; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Dishforth; RAF Fairford; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lyneham; Stirling; training
Football players
Tags: 426 Squadron; aircrew; sport
Details of death of those signing the book
Tags: 158 Squadron; 19 OTU; 26 OTU; 35 Squadron; 405 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 424 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 429 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 433 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Halifax; Hampden; killed in action; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Croft; RAF Dishforth; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Moor; RAF Elvington; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Horwood; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Middleton St George; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Snaith; RAF Syerston; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Whitley
Mrs Mudd's café - some notes about the signatures
Halifax 'Beryle'
The nose art is a cartoon of a woman, painted 'Tak Yer Time I'm Easy'. 56 bombs are painted on. Under the cockpit is 'Beryle'.
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Halifax III - Evidence of Collision
Tags: 10 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; 424 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; crash; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Me 109; mid-air collision; navigator; pilot; RAF Croft; RAF Snaith; wireless operator
Five Airmen and a Lancaster
Tags: 426 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster
Eight Airmen and a Lancaster Mk 2
Fourth left is Wing Commander Bill Swetman.
Tags: 426 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; pilot
Three Airmen at a Mid-Upper Turret
Tags: 426 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster
Halifax in the Snow
Tags: 426 Squadron; Halifax; RAF Linton on Ouse
Halifax
Tags: 426 Squadron; Halifax; Nissen hut
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
Lancaster
Tags: 426 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; nose art
Interview with Helga Wynne and Gordon Atkinson
Interview with Haydn Philip Rose
Interview with an anonymous interviewee (An01137)
Interview with Raymond Moore
Tags: 408 Squadron; 426 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; faith; fear; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Brackla; RAF Cosford; RAF East Moor; RAF Halton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF St Athan; recruitment; searchlight; sport; training