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- Tags: 463 Squadron
Lancasters in the snow
Tags: 463 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Don Falgate's crew and aircraft
Interview with Bob Leedham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 86 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Halton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF St Athan; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wratting Common; Scharnhorst; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Carolyn Pritchard
Interview with Hugh Rogers
Interview with Wal Goodwin
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; displaced person; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training
Walter John Smith’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 1661 HCU; 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training
Le Havre Harbour
Le Havre harbour
World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington; Window
Procedures and Life of an Air Gunner with a Lancaster Squadron
He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and…
Tags: 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; meteorological officer; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
M R Barry's air gunner log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; Anson; Battle; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Martinet; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Stirling; training; Wellington
Squadron Leader Bill Radford
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; hangar; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Waddington
463 Squadron 1945
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; hangar; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Tonsberg
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; navigator; Window
Don Southwell and crew
'The Crew Waddington'
'463 Squadron Don -2nd from right'
'(Missing Bill Morgan Bomb Aimer)'
Tags: 463 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Lancasters in the snow
Tags: 463 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Clarence Keith Bruhn’s flying log book for observers, air gunners and wireless operators
The Exploits of Warrant Officer Arthur Pritchard
Tags: 463 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); crash; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
Operations Briefing Room
Information supplied with the collection states 'Breifing [sic] Room RAF Waddington "Raid on Juvisy 18/19 April 1944" ' There is a banner with 'WC Kingsford-Smith'. he was the squadron's first commanding…
Ronald Gard’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 1661 HCU; 17 OTU; 463 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
Walter Goodwin’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1661 HCU; 21 OTU; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Lancasters lined up on perimeter track
Frank Mottershead’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; RAF Lichfield; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator