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- Tags: 97 Squadron
Bits and Pieces from a Long Career
V Group News, June 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; 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; training; wireless operator
Letter from the Prime Minister to A.O.C.-in-C. Bomber Command on Augsburg operation
Ted Haywood & Tom Carter
The second is a larger version of the same image and on the reverse is
'F/Sgt Tom Carter W/Op
F/Sgt Ted…
Ron Doble's flying log book for navigators air bomber air gunners flight engineers
Interview with Ernest James White
Interview with Jim Penny. Two
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bourn; shot down
Philip Batty's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Target Frankfurt
Lincoln and Sigs Inst Course
Photograph 2 is ten airmen arranged in two rows, the front row of six is seated with four men standing behind. It is captioned…
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; Lincoln; RAF St Athan; training; wireless operator
Beaufighter, Spitfire and Lincoln
Photograph 2 is an air-to-air view of a Spitfire taken from a Lincoln, captioned 'Spitfire breakaway, Shallufa Egypt…
Tags: 97 Squadron; Beaufighter; Lincoln; RAF Hemswell; Spitfire
Tengah Open Day
Photograph 2 is the nose of a Spitfire.
Photograph 3 is a Vampire flying by.
Photograph 4 is front view of a Lincoln.
They are captioned 'Open Day, Tengah, Singapore 1948. Beaufighter, Spitfire,…
Tags: 97 Squadron; Beaufighter; C-47; Lincoln; Spitfire
James Wrigley Service Record
James Wrigley's flying log book
Tags: 635 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Whitchurch; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Rascal’s flying log book for aircrew mascot
David Maltby's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Paignton; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training
Interview with James Wright
Interview with Jim Penny. One
Interview with Harold Kirby
Tags: 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; crash; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; ground crew; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mechanics airframe; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; York
Interview with Maurice Hatch
Tags: 630 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Lancaster; navigator; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald George Doble
Interview with Jim Copus. Two
Interview with Jim Copus. One
Bomb aimers briefing 31 July 1944 - Joigny-La-Roche
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; RAF Waddington; target indicator; Window