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- Tags: 5 Group
Recommendation of David for the award of Distinguished Flying Medal
Roll of Honour
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Tags: 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew
Holten in Oorlogstjd (1984) - Holten in Wartime
Interceptions/Tactics Report No 189/44
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Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 3 Group; 4 Group; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Halifax; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; propaganda; Spitfire; V-1; Wellington
Half a Life, Half Remembered
Tags: 101 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 2 Group; 3 Group; 311 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 7 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; fitter airframe; flight engineer; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gneisenau; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harrow; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Hurricane; incendiary device; Lancaster; love and romance; Magister; Manchester; Me 109; Me 110; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; observer; Operational Training Unit; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; radar; RAF Benson; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Catterick; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Debden; RAF Duxford; RAF Finningley; RAF Grantham; RAF Halton; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Honington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Manston; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Netheravon; RAF Newmarket; RAF Oakington; RAF Sealand; RAF Silloth; RAF South Cerney; RAF St Eval; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; RAF Warmwell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; shot down; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
H Jack Lazenby DFC
Tags: 1654 HCU; 20 OTU; 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); briefing; Catalina; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; flight engineer; flight mechanic; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 110; Me 262; mechanics engine; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Benson; RAF Bourn; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Colerne; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Elvington; RAF Fairford; RAF Halton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melton Mowbray; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Pershore; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Swinderby; RAF Talbenny; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Valley; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wing; recruitment; Resistance; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Letter to Jose from Leslie Hay
Tags: 49 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; final resting place; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; memorial; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Woodbridge; Stalag Luft 3; target indicator
Flashbacks to My Tour with the Americans
Bob Burns computer compendium
Tags: 10 OTU; 106 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 Group; aircrew; bombing; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cosford; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Map of 5 Group Schweinfurt operation
Lancaster commemorative drawing
Tags: 44 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; arts and crafts; bombing; Lancaster
Recommendation for non-immediate award of DFM for Sergeant Kenneth Saw
Bomber Command intelligence narrative of operations no 747
Operations order from 4 Group
Tags: 1 Group; 10 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 466 Squadron; 5 Group; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; 640 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 8 Group; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Pathfinders; RAF Driffield; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Snaith; target indicator
No 100 (S.D.) Group - intelligence raid analysis
Bomber Harris fact sheet
Tags: 1 Group; 2 Group; 210 Squadron; 3 Group; 31 Squadron; 38 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; B-17; B-24; B-25; Battle; Blenheim; Boston; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Manchester; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Stirling; Ventura; Wellington; Whitley
1311249 Flt Sgt Williamson, Air Gunner Lancaster
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Master Bomber; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Croft; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Kirkham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Morpeth; RAF Saltby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Interview with Frank Mouritz
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Memoir
Tags: 1669 HCU; 227 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 582 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; crewing up; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Balderton; RAF Graveley; RAF Langar; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; Tiger force; training; Wellington
The Offensive Phase
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 169 Squadron; 171 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crash; Defiant; Do 217; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; Me 410; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Downham Market; RAF Farnborough; RAF Foulsham; RAF Little Snoring; RAF North Creake; RAF Northolt; RAF Oulton; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swannington; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; Scharnhorst; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; Tirpitz; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Operation Overlord
Top left - newspaper cutting providing account of plan for attack on Merville battery including saturation bombing by Lancasters and ground attack. Goes on with account of actual…
Tags: 1 Group; 4 Group; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders
Operations, the railway plan
Top left - extract from Ned Sparkes's logbook from 1 March 1944 to 29 March 1944 with operations to Trappes, Le Mans (twice), Brest,…
Tags: 3 Group; 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; RAF Croft; Stirling
Admiral Shyte-Awk
Below - explanation that Admiral Shyte-Awk was the aircraft…
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Lancaster; nose art; pilot; superstition