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- Tags: 83 Squadron
Arthur Tindall's service and operations
Tags: 44 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Chipping Norton; RAF Coningsby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Witchford; target indicator; V-weapon; wireless operator
Alan Edgar's Operations
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
He starts by describing crewing up at Silverstone. His opinion of the Stirling was that it was awful on the ground and in the air.
His first operation was a second 'dickie' (an observer)…
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; He 111; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; mess; navigator; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Dudley Snooke
Tags: 83 Squadron; aircrew; Hampden; killed in action; pilot; RAF Scampton
The Kriegie March 2007
Tags: 102 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 18 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 32 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; ditching; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; memorial; mine laying; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halton; RAF Marham; RAF Northolt; RAF St Eval; RAF Wittering; Red Cross; Special Operations Executive; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; the long march; Typhoon; Wellington
Bits and Pieces from a Long Career
Alma Leedham's memoir
The Lancaster which knew its way home
V Group News, June 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb dump; bombing; Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; radar; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; rivalry; tractor; training; wireless operator
Saumur rail bridge
Interview with Jack Perry
Flight Engineer's Log
Tags: 83 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster
Interview with Ted Frost
Tags: 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; pilot
Interview with Ronald Davis
George Holmes sortie record sheet 83 Squadron
Tags: 5 Group; 83 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Pathfinders
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Dominie; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Cyril Bristow Adams
James Wrigley Service Record
Interview with George Holmes
Bomb aimers briefing 30 July 1944 - Cohagnes
Politz
Harry Thomas Ansell's flying log book for flight engineers
Interview with Jack Hayley
Tags: 170 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crewing up; Dominie; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; love and romance; military living conditions; operational training unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; training
Interview with Colin Wood
Six aircrew
Tags: 83 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster