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- Tags: 7 Squadron
Jack Genney’s Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bombers and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 1657 HCU; 7 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; prisoner of war; RAF Oakington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; RAF Wratting Common; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); searchlight; shot down; Stirling; training
A conversation with Oliver Wells
Tags: 5 Group; 600 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); evading; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; Mosquito; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cranwell; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Stradishall; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; Sunderland; the long march; Tiger Moth; training
Oliver Wells in front of a Lancaster
Tags: 7 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot
Aircrew trainees
42 men in uniform, 39 trainees and three staff, posed in four rows front of a building.
Right page:
Top left, Andrew with a woman and child at the presentation of his Distinguished Flying Cross.
Top right, a report of the awarding of…
Conversation with Donald Mason
Tags: 11 OTU; 1657 HCU; 57 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lysander; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF North Weald; RAF Oakington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Westcott; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Richard Leslie Skepper
Richard Spepper was born in Kent. His ambition was to be a tank driver but his mother escorted him to the RAF…
Fighting the war sitting down
Tags: 156 Squadron; 2 Group; 49 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; Blenheim; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Hemswell; RAF Oakington; RAF Scampton; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Norman Piercy - Research Notes
Tags: 101 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 218 Squadron; 3 Group; 405 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 8 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Alconbury; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Wellington
Citation for Distinguished Flying Cross for acting Flight Lieutenant Harold William Bratley
H W Bratley - personnel documents
H W Bratley - observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 1678 HCU; 7 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; escaping; evading; forced landing; Harrow; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dumfries; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honington; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; Wellington
Postcard of Stirling Bombers
Tags: 7 Squadron; Stirling
History of 7 Squadron
List of postings
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1657 HCU; 214 Squadron; 7 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Witchford; training; Wellington
Lancasters on dispersal
Lancaster and fuel bowser
Tags: 7 Squadron; fuelling; Lancaster; petrol bowser; service vehicle
Five airmen watch a Lancaster taking off
Tags: 7 Squadron; Lancaster
George Shepherd and crew
Newspaper cutting - RAF pound Heligoland
Tags: 49 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; pilot; RAF Mepal; wireless operator
Air gunners of 7 PFF Squadron
Tags: 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster; Pathfinders