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- Tags: 617 Squadron
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from officer of 4 Group
Postgram from 5 Group Headquarters to Officer Commanding 617 Squadron
Letter from Air Commodore A.C.H. Sharpe to Leonard Cheshire
Note from Air Officer Command 5 Group
Interview with John Richard Bell
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Grand Slam; Lancaster; Tallboy; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Johnny Johnson. One
Interview with Benny Goodman. One
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Grand Slam; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; submarine; Tallboy; Tirpitz
Interview with Hugh Rogers
Tags: 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Waddington; Tallboy; Tirpitz
Interview with Mary Stopes-Roe
Interview with Frank Tilley
Interview with Murray Valentine
Notice to 617 Squadron wireless operators
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; wireless operator
Service History of Benny Goodman
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Barnes Wallis
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Barnes Wallis
Letter from Barnes Wallis to Leonard Cheshire
Roy Chadwick at Scampton RAF Station on the Night of the Dam Buster Raid
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; flight engineer; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
Interview with Basil Ambrose
Interview with Glen Atkins
Tags: 44 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Lincoln; RAF Binbrook
Interview with Gerald Taylor
Tags: 550 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Abingdon; Tiger force; training
Interview with Benny Goodman. Two
Letter to Leonard Cheshire
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; Halifax; Harvard; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force