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Citation for award of Victoria Cross to Flying Officer Leslie Thomas Manser
This stone was unlaid at Duisburg by 50 Sqdn
This stone was unlaid at Wilhelmshaven by 50 Sqdn
This stone was unlaid at Bremen by 50 Sqdn
This stone was unlaid at Dusseldorf by 50 Sqdn
Bremen 4/5 Sept. 1942 50 Squadron
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bombing
50 Squadron event badge
Additional information about this item was kindly provided by the donor.
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Commemorative Plaque
On the left and right - RAF bases and operations carried out from them.
On the right - a map on northern Europe and United…
Postagram from Air Marshal Harris to G Cruickshank
50 Squadron crest
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G Cruickshank Memoir
Joined Army – 4th Queen's Own Hussars on 2nd January 1936.
Joined RAF 1938 and trained as balloon operator then applied as air gunner, arriving at RAF Swinderby in December 1941. Took part in 50…
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Abingdon; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
Gordon Cruickshank life on squadrons 1940-1944.
Tags: 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Pathfinders; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
Gordon Cruickshank's crew after crash landing
Captioned between pages 39-40 of 1956 Memoir '[Underlined] Bradwell [\Underlined] After Hamburg 1942, showing self, P/O Power, Sgt Wilson, Sgt Conner. Both…
Tags: 50 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Bradwell Bay
Gordon Cruickshank's crew after crash landing
Tags: 50 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; RAF Bradwell Bay
Memoir Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cruickshank D.F.M. RAFRO
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Medal; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Credenhill; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stanmore Park; RAF Swinderby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Warmwell; Victoria Cross; Whitley
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; flight engineer; 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; Tirpitz; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Arthur Norman Hollis’ Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Memoir by Arthur Hollis
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; Harvard; Home Guard; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Oxford; pilot; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Turweston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Westcott; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Arthur Hollis' award of the Distinguished Flying Cross
Plate with signatures
Thanksgiving address for the life of Arthur Norman Hollis OBE, DFC
Letter from Sergeant S G Attwood to the Commanding Officer, RAF Waddington
On the same album page is a cutting referring…
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; RAF Waddington
'If I don't come back' documentary newspaper cuttings
Cutting 2 is an explanation of the idea of why the documentary was made and some detail about what inspired it.
Cutting 3 is…
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Waddington
Lancaster nose and starboard wing
Tags: 50 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Skellingthorpe
Attwood, S.G. Personal details
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster