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- Tags: 427 Squadron
Peter Webb's service career, aircraft, and aircrews
Top right - seven aircrew wearing uniform tunics with brevet standing in line.
Left middle - a drawing of a winter scene…
Tags: 427 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Barney Thompson's wartime log
Pilot Officer A.J.B. Thompson’s SAAF Observers or Air Gunners Log Book
Correspondence concerning commission, award of Distinguished flying cross and list of operations carried out
427 Squadron observer Flight Lieutenant Clarence Hughes DFC
Squadron photograph
Tags: 427 Squadron; Wellington
Group of servicemen and a civilian in front of a Halifax
Tags: 427 Squadron; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; nose art; RAF Leeming
Clarence Hughes’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 427 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; heavy conversion unit; navigator; operational training unit; RAF Croft; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Millom; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Topcliffe; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
427 Squadron Crest
427 Squadron and Lancaster
On the reverse '419 [scored out] 427 Sqdn
427 with C.O. Centre W/C EM Bryson DFC
British built Lanc Leeming May 45'.
King George VI at RAF Leeming
Information supplied with the collection states 'King George inspects damage to No.427 Sqn Halifax "U-Uncle" during visit to RAF Leeming on 11 August 1944'.
Three Aircrew loading Ammunition
The photo is annotated 'PL22002'.
Tags: 427 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5
Pilot in Halifax
Tags: 427 Squadron; aircrew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; pilot
Squadron Leader G J Laird DFC and crew
RAF Leeming Christmas Flying Control 1945
Tags: 427 Squadron; 429 Squadron; aircrew; mess; pilot; RAF Leeming