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- Tags: 617 Squadron
Interview with Colin Cole
Colin Cole's navigator's, air bomber's, air gunner's and flight engineer's flying log book
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Me 262; Operation Catechism; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Mona; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; submarine; Tiger force; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Interview with Reg Woolgar
Tags: 100 Group; 192 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; ditching; entertainment; fear; FIDO; final resting place; Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; Hampden; killed in action; missing in action; operational training unit; RAF Foulsham; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; training; Walrus; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Basil Ambrose
Dam Busters 617 Squadron
Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster
New museum in spotlight
Article 2 is a wartime memoir by Ivor Cole, 103 Squadron.
Article 3 describes some of the exhibits at the new Hendon museum.
Interview with Glen Atkins
Tags: 44 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Lincoln; RAF Binbrook
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 Kenneth Cook
Interview with Johnny Johnson. One
Interview with Johnny Johnson. Two
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bouncing bomb; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; operations room; RAF Scampton; sanitation; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979)
Interview with Johnny Johnson.Three
Interview with Les Munro
Tags: 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); fear; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; pilot; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; training
Interview with Gerald Taylor
Tags: 550 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; navigator; RAF Abingdon; Tiger force; training
Interview with Robert Woodhouse
Interview with Syd Grimes
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Sydney Grimes' observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Dominie; Halifax; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operation Catechism; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tirpitz; Wellington; wireless operator
Bomb aimers briefing 17 April 1944
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; Pathfinders; target indicator
Ernie Twells’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
617 Squadron memorial tie
Tags: 617 Squadron; memorial