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- Tags: Caterpillar Club
Last of the Tail Gun Charlies
Tags: 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); prisoner of war; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Waddington; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; the long march; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Letter to John Taplin's Parents from John
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club; prisoner of war; Stalag 8B
Letter from John Taplin to his Parents
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club; prisoner of war; Stalag 8B
Caterpillar Club
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club
Sergeant John Walter Gifford Saunders 1324708
Order of Narrative
Memories of Past Times
Tags: 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Caterpillar Club; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Oakington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; Tiger Moth; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley
Ikey Love's Badges
#1 a Pathfinder badge.
#2 a Caterpillar club badge.
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club; Pathfinders
Bob Burns computer compendium
Tags: 10 OTU; 106 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 5 Group; aircrew; bombing; Caterpillar Club; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cosford; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; shot down; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Caterpillar club membership card
Tags: Caterpillar Club
Bob Burns
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club; observer
Robert Charles Stephenson Hancock
Ted Thornhill's Lancaster
Ted Thornhill's Caterpillar Club Membership Card
Tags: aircrew; bale out; Caterpillar Club
Ted Thornhill's Keepsake Box
There is a head and shoulders portrait of Ted with his POW number, 16865, printed on. There is a post it note with 'POW Germany Ted Thornhill 1943-1945'.
Inside the box is a Caterpillar Club pin…
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club; prisoner of war
Ron Riding's Caterpillar Club Membership
Tags: bale out; Caterpillar Club
Paul R Trevayne
My POW Days - Postscript
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Caterpillar Club; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Goebbels, Joseph (1897-1945); Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; memorial; mine laying; navigator; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Elvington; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Pocklington; Red Cross; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Stalag 8B; Stalag Luft 3; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); the long march
Reg Wilson's Caterpillar Club Card
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club
Air Gunner
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Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 105 Squadron; 114 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 1665 HCU; 18 Squadron; 180 Squadron; 2 Group; 208 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 301 Squadron; 304 Squadron; 342 Squadron; 6 Group; 6 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; 90 Squadron; 97 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Boston; Caterpillar Club; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; evading; final resting place; Gee; Gneisenau; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Horsa; Hurricane; Ju 87; killed in action; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Me 109; Meteor; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bottesford; RAF Bourn; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Bramcote; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coltishall; RAF Drem; RAF Driffield; RAF Duxford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Fairford; RAF Finningley; RAF Great Massingham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kenley; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Leconfield; RAF Leuchars; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Newmarket; RAF Newton; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pershore; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Sleap; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tilstock; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Raynham; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; Resistance; Scharnhorst; Special Operations Executive; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington