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Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Three
The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.
Tags: 100 Group; 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Honington; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Oulton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Shipdham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodbridge; Stearman; Stirling; superstition; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Andover's Lancasters
Tags: 156 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Grand Slam; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; military discipline; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bardney; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; Spitfire; take-off crash; Tallboy; Tirpitz; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Holten in Oorlogstjd (1984) - Holten in Wartime
No 75 Squadron Stirling, air and ground crew
On the reverse 'L-R Sgt Roe, LAC Lobley, F/O Omerod, F/O Hosie, Wall,
P/O Bailey, Sgt Lillystone, Sgt Ottaway, Sgt…
Lancaster JB139 Dark Victor
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Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Lancaster; mess; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; Spitfire; Tallboy; target indicator; target photograph; V-1; wireless operator
Bombing Instructions
Below is a list of heights of each of the five lines of aircraft.
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; pilot
Lancaster Banking hard to Starboard
Three Lancasters in Flight
Lancaster with mocked up Upkeep Bomb
Newspaper cuttings and caricatures
Mosquitoes and Lancaster
#2 is a front/nose view of a Mosquito.
#3 is a rear view of a Mosquito.
#4 is a port side view of a Lancaster, captioned 'Lanc (special) of 617 Sqn Woodhall Spa. Cut away to carry…
Wing Commander Willie Tait and Air Vice Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane
Wing Commander Guy Gibson and Group Captain Evans Evans
Rotterdam
On the reverse 'On loan P&R Darby Woodhall Spa'.
Hamm
On the reverse 'On loan P&R Darby Woodhall Spa'.
Hamburg
It is captioned '3128 Bin 5.6.46 //8" 4000 19.01 Hamburg 'T' F/Lt Quinton 'T' 617'.
On the reverse 'On Loan P&R Darby Woodhall Spa'.
Dennis Oldman and Crew
Frank Howkins and his crew
On the reverse the six have signed their name and handwritten is 'Nov 44 On return from the "Tirpitz" raid'.
Flying Programme 11 December 1944
Gunner in Rose turret
Newspaper cutting and airmen
Queen's colour and 617 Squadron standard
Right - printed program cover for presentation of…
Tags: 617 Squadron; RAF Finningley
617 Squadron
Tags: 617 Squadron
617 Squadron
Underneath - short text giving information about 617 Squadron
Centre - photograph of a large group of airmen wearing tunics and peaked caps sitting and standing in three rows in front of a Vulcan. Captioned 'The Dam…
Tags: 617 Squadron; ground crew; ground personnel