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- Tags: Halifax
One Last Op
A Daughter's Tribute
Order of Narrative
Leonard William Fairbank's service history
Tags: 100 Group; 20 OTU; 223 Squadron; 25 OTU; 408 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; B-17; B-24; bombing; Dominie; Halifax; Hampden; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Finningley; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Oulton; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Leonard William Fairbanks' Observer' and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book
Tags: 20 OTU; 223 Squadron; 25 OTU; 408 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Dominie; Halifax; Hampden; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Finningley; RAF Leeming; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Oulton; RAF Stormy Down; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator
Frank Howkins’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1654 HCU; 27 OTU; 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Castle Bromwich; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Lichfield; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator
H Jack Lazenby DFC
Tags: 1654 HCU; 20 OTU; 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); briefing; Catalina; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; flight engineer; flight mechanic; Flying Training School; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 110; Me 262; mechanics engine; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Barkstone Heath; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Benson; RAF Bourn; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Colerne; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunkeswell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Elvington; RAF Fairford; RAF Halton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Melton Mowbray; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF Pershore; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Swinderby; RAF Talbenny; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Valley; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wing; recruitment; Resistance; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Hemmens Story
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; crash; Halifax; Lancaster; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 3
Keith Hailey's Service and Release Book
Alfred Sweeney’s RAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book
He was stationed at RAF…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1653 HCU; 1669 HCU; 216 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; B-29; bombing; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 7; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; Lincoln; Meteor; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Aqir; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Carlisle; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Langar; RAF Lyneham; RAF Marham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Syerston; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Watton; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Shackleton; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Bernard Ross' observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 1665 HCU; 296 Squadron; 297 Squadron; 30 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Blenheim; Halifax; Hamilcar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Horsa; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Earls Colne; RAF Hurn; RAF Penrhos; RAF Seighford; RAF Thruxton; RAF Tilstock; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Six aircrew and Halifax
Tags: 296 Squadron; aircrew; Halifax
Harry Wickham's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 462 Squadron; 76 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bombing; C-47; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Oxford; pilot; RAF Aqir; RAF Castle Combe; Wellington
Harry Wickham's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 10 OTU; 102 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 1658 HCU; aircrew; B-24; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Riccall; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley
Harry William Wickham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 462 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; mine laying; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Finningley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Torquay; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Airmen
Top middle - five airmen standing by or sitting on fence. Four are wearing battledress, two with peaked and two with side caps. The…
Tags: aircrew; ground crew; Halifax; pilot
Airmen and newspaper cutting
Bottom left - three-quarter length image of an airman wearing tunic and smoking a cigarette. Trees in…
People
Top right - half-length image on a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Bottom left - full length image of an airman wearing tunic and side cap standing…
Photographs aircraft and people
Bottom left - a ship in canal, captioned 'Suez Canal'.
Bottom centre - two airmen wearing khaki shorts and shirts standing in front of palm tree.…
Tags: Halifax
Bombing newspaper cuttings
At bottom a three-quarter length image of an airman wearing tunic and side cap captioned 'Don on the bridge at Topcliffe'.
Tags: Halifax; RAF Topcliffe
Halifax
Halifax R9430 being test-flown by Squadron Leader P Dobson to determine the rate of height loss while flying on one engine.
British Aircraft Recognition
JH Bird's pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: aircrew; Albemarle; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 7; Oxford; pilot; RAF Elsham Wolds
Report on the Attack on Valence
The reverse has small ads.
Tags: B-24; bombing; Halifax; Wellington
Interview with Monty Felton
Tags: 10 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; briefing; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; Gee; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Oxford; perception of bombing war; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Carnaby; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Kinloss; RAF Melbourne; RAF Rufforth; RAF Torquay; RAF Uxbridge; training; Whitley; Window