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- Tags: 9 Squadron
Stanley Abbott’s Royal Air Force Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bardney; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Zola nose art
Tags: 9 Squadron; bombing; Lancaster; nose art; RAF Waddington
Four newspaper cuttings
Top right - Taunton officer wins DFC. Awarded to Squadron Leader Denis Clyde-Smith. Citation…
Reminiscences of service in the Royal Air Force - 1937 to 1945
Tags: 115 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 27 OTU; 3 Group; 5 Group; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; forced landing; ground personnel; Halifax; Lancaster; Magister; Me 110; military living conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Benson; RAF Farnborough; RAF Harwell; RAF Henlow; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marham; RAF Ringway; RAF Sealand; RAF Sywell; RAF Tangmere; RAF Weston Zoyland; Stranraer; Sunderland; Swordfish; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Walrus; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Graham Welsh - answers to questions
Tags: 40 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Flying Training School; Gee; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Benson; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Carlisle; RAF Dumfries; RAF Staverton; RAF Wittering; searchlight; Stalag Luft 3; training; Wellington; wireless operator
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Farewell party, Officers' Mess, Waddington
On the reverse 'Taken at Farewell party, Officers' Mess, Waddington. Friday 28th December 1945. 617 and 9 Squadrons posted to Far East'.
Tags: 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; entertainment; mess; observer; RAF Waddington
A conversation with Guy Sharp
Story of my war
Tags: 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 95 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Ju 52; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; RAF Bardney; RAF Bridlington; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Burn; RAF Dalcross; RAF Kinloss; Stirling; submarine; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
A conversation with Guy Sharp
Tags: 216 Squadron; 29 OTU; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; forced landing; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Carlisle; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Cranfield; RAF Honington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Luqa; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pevensey; RAF Stradishall; RAF West Raynham; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; training; Ventura; Wellington
Guy Sharp’s Royal Air Force Pilots Flying Log Book (Extracts)
Tags: 20 OTU; 214 Squadron; 23 OTU; 29 OTU; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Cranfield; RAF Honington; RAF Kabrit; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pershore; RAF Polebrook; RAF Rochester; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Raynham; training; Wellington
Seven Wellingtons in flight
Tags: 9 Squadron; Wellington
Heligoland
The Lancaster Crash near Heislum, Friesland, The Netherlands
The document gives details of the target and number of aircraft involved, the date and time and a list of all seven crew members that…
Conversation with Peter Langdon
Squadron Leader Lennox Lamb’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Initial training as a pilot at Nos. 3 and 2 Flying Training Schools. Posted to 99 Squadron in January 1932. Between January and August 1933…
Tags: 203 Squadron; 24 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 99 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Flying Training School; Harrow; Magister; Martinet; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Digby; RAF Grantham; RAF Hendon; RAF Henlow; RAF Hinaidi; RAF Honington; RAF Manston; RAF Shaibah; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Upavon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wittering; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Harry Kartz
Transcript of interview with harry Kartz
Harry Kartz’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
The First Crew
Tags: 1652 HCU; 19 OTU; 35 Squadron; 4 Group; 78 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Breighton; RAF Cardington; RAF Dalton; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Padgate; Stalag 357; training; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force