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- Tags: 460 Squadron
Ernest Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Finningley; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wickenby; training; Wellington
Emmerich
Captioned '6348 [undecipherable] 1000 [undecipherable] Emmerich [undecipherable] L460'.
E D Leaviss’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Douglas Ross Arrowsmith’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 21 OTU; 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Douai
Donald Cochrane’s observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1657 HCU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Binbrook; RAF Feltwell; RAF Seighford; RAF Stradishall; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Donald Cochrane's memoir
The second part describes an operation when a great number of aircraft were lost…
Daniel Phillips's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Daniel Phillips brief service history
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; navigator; training
Crashed Lancaster
Tags: 460 Squadron; crash; ground personnel; Lancaster
Crashed and damaged aircraft
Tags: 460 Squadron; crash; Lancaster
Cap Gris Nez
Calais
Bois Desjardins
Biography of Wing Commander P Isaacson AM, DFC, AFC, DFM RAAF and research related to same, part of 156 (PFF) sqn with AG Lang and L Verdon-Roe
Tags: 156 Squadron; 460 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb struck; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ground personnel; Lancaster; mess; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Lichfield; RAF Warboys; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Biography of Squadron Leader Lighton Verdon-Roe DFC RAFVR -156 (PFF) Squadron
Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Flying Training School; H2S; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Breighton; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
Axe Retrieved from Field at Thin-le Moutier, France
Ardouval
Alan Farr's flying log book
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1662 HCU; 27 OTU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Distinguished Flying Medal; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Seighford; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Airfield views
Photograph 2 is of airmen eating at rows of tables in a mess hall.
Photograph 3 is a head and shoulders portrait of an aircrew member on an aircraft.
Photograph 4 is of a man sitting reading in an…
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 18 OTU; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evading; FIDO; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Manston; RAF Methwold; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woodbridge; searchlight; Spitfire; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
460 Squadron unofficial history
Tags: 460 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Binbrook; RAF Breighton
460 squadron plaque
Tags: 460 Squadron; animal
460 Squadron photograph
Two further…
Tags: 460 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Lancaster