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SCookeH115312v10017.jpg
Training notes for the Lancaster including tarmack checks and limitations, starting procedure, cockpit checks and checks before take-off and before landing.

SBondS-FellowesDv10016.jpg
Side view of Lancaster parked on airfield. Another aircraft in the distance. Submitted with caption 'Lancaster III ND968 AR-O 460 Sqn Binbrook '45 [David Fellowes]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.

SBondS-FellowesDv10015.jpg
Rear quarter view of a Lancaster with squadron letters 'AR-O' parked on dispersal. Captioned 'Oboe II'. Submitted with caption 'Lancaster III ND968 AR-O 460 sqn Binbrook '45 2 [David Fellowes]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.

SBondS-FellowesDv10006.jpg
A page from log book showing operations to Dortmund, Duisburg, Pforzheim and Neuss in February 1945. His pilot on operations was Flying Officer Whitmarsh

SBondS-ElliottJv10037.jpg
Front quarter view of a parked Lancaster with bombs on trollies in front. Another aircraft in the distance behind. Submitted with caption 'Lancaster B.III PB707 BQ-L2 550 Sqn Norh Killingholme 1944-45' Additional information kindly provided by the…

LCookeH115312v1.pdf
Pilot's flying log book for Horace Cooke covering the period 11 April 1944 to 1 June 1945 when Horace served in Canada with 31 Personnel Dispatch, 19 Elementary Flying School, 17 Service Flying Training School and 7 Bombing and Gunnery School.

The…

SBondS-DidwellNv10001-00010009.jpg
Ten airmen wearing battledress standing in line. In the middle an airwoman wearing overalls. In the background the front of a Lancaster, letter 'U' on nose, with one figure in the cockpit. Submitted with caption 'Lancaster III U 75 (NZ) Sqn Mepal'.…

SBondS-DidwellNv10001-00010008.jpg
Rear quarter view of a Lancaster, letters 'JN-X', crashed in front of houses. Submitted with caption 'Lancaster III ND801 JN-X 75 (NZ) Sqn Mepal overshot back from Dortmund and hit house in Sutton 3 Feb 45'. Additional information kindly provided by…

SBondS-DidwellNv10001-00010007.jpg
Rear quarter view of a Lancaster, squadron letters 'AA-K'. Submitted with caption 'Lancaster III AA-K of 75 (NZ) Sqn at dispersal Mepal 1944'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor. Three versions of the same image, the second and third…

MAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]-230427-01.pdf
This is a handwritten record book for 9 Squadron from 14/15 April 1943 to 10/11 November 1943.

For each operation it includes many details of the target, routes, bomb load, crews, a description of results, and if any did not return.

The last…

MAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]-230427-04.pdf
This is a handwritten record of the operations of 9 Squadron from 22nd November 1944 to 9th June 1945. For each operation it includes many details of the target, routes, bomb load, a description of results, and if any did not return. Inserted is the…

LEdgePM1576799v1.pdf
P M Edge’s Flying Log Book as a bomb aimer from 20th March 1943 until 28th September 1944. Initial bombing and gunnery training at 41 Air School in South Africa, before posting back to the UK in September 1943. Further training at 10 Advanced…

PGouldS19040023.jpg
Five ground crew standing in line by the rear fuselage of a Lancaster registration 'ED532'. Engine trestles in the background.

SGrewB[Ser#-DoB]v10001.pdf
Flight Sergeant Archibald Steele’s Flying Log Book as a pilot and flight engineer from 20th April 1943 to 10th September 1945. Flying training started with 19 Elementary Flying Training School then at 12 and 36 Service Flying Training Schools in…

SBattleJ2004710v10011.jpg
An airman in flying kit positioned at the rear door of Lancaster, LM512.

SShepherdGC3030576v60002.jpg
Front quarter view looking down at an airborne Lancaster letters 'PG-?' flying above cloud. Captioned 'A Lancaster III on a daylight test flight above cloud'.
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