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- Tags: 429 Squadron
Interview with Charles Frederick Green
Tags: 1664 HCU; 24 OTU; 429 Squadron; 75 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; coping mechanism; Distinguished Flying Cross; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Croft; RAF Dalcross; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Leeming; RAF Mepal; RAF Padgate; superstition; training; Whitley
Interview with James McKenzie Leith
Interview with Doug Petty
He completed technical training at RAF St Athan, where he met Betty, his future wife. From there Doug went to…
429 Squadron Crest
Robert Mitchell’s flying log book
Interview with Ron Dawson
Tags: 429 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Defiant; evading; Halifax; Resistance; shot down; training; Whitley
Letter from Lloyds Bank to Doug Petty
Tags: 429 Squadron; aircrew; RAF Leeming
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; 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; training; Whitley
A memoir of life in the WAAF during the war
Tags: 105 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 2 Group; 427 Squadron; 429 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Leeming; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wilmslow; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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
Ex-RCAF The Camp July 1983
Tags: 102 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 4 Group; 405 Squadron; 415 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 429 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 433 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Catalina; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; navigator; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Driffield; RAF Leeming; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Tholthorpe; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 7; Victoria Cross; wireless operator / air gunner