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- Tags: B-24
Wooden box with 104 squadron crest and B-24
Tags: 104 Squadron; arts and crafts; B-24
Interview with Aldo Petrina
Page from Ron Harrison's log book
Tags: 70 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bombing
76 OTU Training Course
Crew positions - B-24
Tags: 70 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bomb aimer; flight engineer; navigator; pilot; wireless operator
Bombs dropping onto B-24
Photograph 2 is the damaged B-24 on the ground showing the damage. Two crew are looking through the damaged areas.
The caption describes in some detail the events. The…
Tags: 37 Squadron; 70 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bomb aimer; bomb struck; pilot; wireless operator
Interview with Richard Harrison
Dennis Raettig's wartime memoir
Tags: 104 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; animal; B-24; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; incendiary device; mechanics engine; military living conditions; military service conditions; RAF Driffield; RAF East Moor; RAF Harwell; RAF Leeming; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; runway; service vehicle; take-off crash; tractor; training; Wellington; Whitley
Denis Clyde-Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 1654 HCU; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-17; B-24; B-26; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Lysander; Manchester; mine laying; Mosquito; P-51; pilot; Proctor; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Honington; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Spitfire; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; Wellington; York
Daphne Brownlie Interview
She tells of the hours she and her colleagues worked and also what life was like on the base, including her…
Interview with William Cooke
Tells of his spell of guard duty on board a troop ship, and losing one of the people he was showing…
Tags: 1661 HCU; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-24; bomb struck; crash; demobilisation; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; radar; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; training; Wellington
Interview with Stanley Shaw
Interview with Ernie Patterson. One
He joined the Royal Air Force at the age of 19 in 1941, but whilst he was waiting to be called up, he was…
Tags: 635 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Catalina; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Dominie; fear; FIDO; H2S; Halifax; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Downham Market; RAF Millom; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; superstition; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Interview with Peter Miller
Initially posted to 527 Squadron, which was …
Interview with William Horace Shaw
Interview with John 'Snogger' Watkins
Tags: 205 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-24; Catalina; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); ground personnel; prisoner of war; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cardington; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Yatesbury; Sunderland; training; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Jim Wildes
Tags: 10 OTU; 206 Squadron; 23 OTU; 31 Squadron; B-17; B-24; C-47; ground personnel; Hampden; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cardington; RAF Halton; RAF Pershore; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Swinderby; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Twenty third operation Dresden
Die Kriegsflugzeuge der Feindmächte
Tags: B-17; B-24; B-25; Beaufighter; Blenheim; Boston; Catalina; Defiant; fuelling; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Hampden; Hudson; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Mosquito; P-38; P-40; P-51; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Swordfish; Ventura; Walrus; Wellington; Whitley
William George Briley's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Interview with John Shipman
Interview with Edward Allan McDonald. Two
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bombing; crash; decoy site; forced landing; Fw 190; ground personnel; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perimeter track; RAF Evanton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Skellingthorpe; shot down; Stirling; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force