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- Tags: 617 Squadron
Gunner in Rose turret
History of 106 Squadron
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; Tallboy; target indicator; V-weapon
Course photograph and Lancaster painting
Warrant Officer Jack Penswick 1497486 Air Gunner
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Bombing of the Tirpitz
617 Squadron 1945
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Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; Lancaster
Target markers on the roof of the Gnome et Rhône aero-engine factory
Two Lancasters in flight
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Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster; nose art
Gumbley Crew
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Jack Penswick’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Morpeth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
617 Squadron badge
Tags: 617 Squadron
Newspaper cutting - Arnsberg here I come
Tags: 617 Squadron; bombing; Grand Slam; Lancaster; Tallboy
Flight Engineer - certificate of competency
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer; fuelling
Lancaster - instructional course handbook
This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University of Lincoln.
Harrold Wakefield's navigator's, air bombers and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 51 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Horsa; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; RAF Lyneham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; training; Whitley; York
Operation order for Eder, Möhne and Sorpe operation and other details
John Joyner's scrap book
Many of the entries are post war and a number refer…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; entertainment; flight engineer; Lancaster; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Tiger Moth; training; wireless operator
Lancaster and bombs
Bottom left - similar air-to-air view front port quarter of a Lancaster with further…
Lancaster
Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster; RAF Mildenhall
Mosquito landing and target photographs
Bottom - side by side target photographs of port area showing aiming…
Nienburg Bridge after attack by 617 Sqn with Tallboys and Grand Slams
Two veterans and a pilot in Hurricane cockpit
617 Squadron reunion
Four aircrew
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; flight engineer; pilot
Des Richards and David Shannon
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew