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- Tags: Lysander
To war in a Wimpy - the life and times of Flight Sergeant Ron Williams RAF
Chapter 1 - early life, enlistment and training.
Chapter 2 - operational training. Describes activities during training OTU including naming his crew and flying out to…
Tags: 150 Squadron; 205 Group; 21 OTU; 216 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; Boston; C-47; crewing up; Dominie; hangar; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Padgate; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wigtown; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Gerry Stone’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Initial training at Electrical and Wireless…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 20 OTU; 64 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; forced landing; Harrow; killed in action; Lysander; Operational Training Unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; Scharnhorst; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Conversation with Donald Mason
Tags: 11 OTU; 1657 HCU; 57 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 7 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lysander; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Feltwell; RAF North Weald; RAF Oakington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Westcott; Stirling; training; Wellington
Flying Officer Albert Oswald Mann
Conversation with Lucian Ercolani
Tags: 214 Squadron; 355 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; Flying Training School; Lysander; pilot; RAF Newmarket; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Watchfield; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Kenneth Munro Steven's pilot's flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 81 OTU; 97 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lysander; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bourn; RAF Perth; RAF Sleap; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tilstock; RAF Watchfield; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
William Hugh Anthony Jackson's Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. One
Tags: 105 Squadron; 17 OTU; 23 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; Boston; Botha; Defiant; Flying Training School; Ju 88; Lysander; Magister; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Carlisle; RAF Church Lawford; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Luqa; RAF Pershore; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Upavon; RAF Upwood; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
William Hugh Anthony Jackson's Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Two
Tags: 15 OTU; 23 OTU; 232 Squadron; 355 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; bale out; bombing; C-47; Defiant; Halifax; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lysander; Martinet; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Hampstead Norris; RAF Harwell; RAF Kolar; RAF Palam; RAF Pershore; RAF Salbani; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Norman Denys Sinclair’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 187 Squadron; 309 Squadron; 525 Squadron; 540 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; Blenheim; C-47; Flying Training School; Hornet Moth; Hudson; Ju 52; Lancaster; Lysander; Magister; Me 109; Mosquito; Oxford; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Ansty; RAF Bathurst; RAF Benson; RAF Coleby Grange; RAF Gibraltar; RAF Grantham; RAF Leuchars; RAF Meir; RAF Membury; RAF Netheravon; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Renfrew; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Wymeswold; Scharnhorst; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; Sunderland; Swordfish; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training
Gunnery and Bombing Notes
Tags: air gunner; Anson; B-17; B-24; B-25; Battle; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; Catalina; Defiant; Do 215; Do 217; Fw 190; Hamilcar; Hampden; He 111; Horsa; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 86; Ju 87; Ju 88; Lysander; Manchester; Me 109; Me 110; Mosquito; Oxford; P-38; P-51; RAF Bridlington; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; training; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley
1942 Royal Air Force diary
Jack Whymark’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Initial training at No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School and 225 Squadron. Posted to 149 Squadron for…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 225 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; evacuation; Harrow; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lysander; Martinet; mine laying; missing in action; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Glatton; RAF Ingham; RAF Kabrit; RAF Manby; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Syerston; RAF Tilshead; RAF West Freugh; training; Wellington
Amendment list No 100 to Air Publication 1480A
The Years up to the Outbreak of the Second World War and How it Affected Me
Tags: 10 Squadron; 4 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; ditching; Dominie; Dulag Luft; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lysander; Me 109; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Hendon; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Padgate; RAF Wittering; RAF Yatesbury; Red Cross; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
... just ... Chapters in a Life .. and some History
Tags: 10 Squadron; 4 Group; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Botha; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; Defiant; ditching; Dominie; Dulag Luft; entertainment; flight engineer; Goldfish Club; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lysander; Me 109; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; radar; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Cosford; RAF Hendon; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Padgate; RAF Sywell; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Yatesbury; Red Cross; Spitfire; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; training; Typhoon; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Lysanders
Tags: Lysander
Aircraft and T E Lawrence's grave
Top Right shows T E Lawrence's grave.
Middle left shows airmen attaching bombs to a Hawker Hart.
Middle right shows a line of Hawker Harts standing…
Harold Wigley's RAF Pilot's Log Book
Herbert Ashton Clark's pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 11 OTU; 215 Squadron; 37 Squadron; 70 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-26; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Harrow; Harvard; Lysander; Magister; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bramcote; RAF Digby; RAF Driffield; RAF El Adem; RAF Feltwell; RAF Honington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Manston; RAF Shallufa; RAF Silloth; training; Wellington
Ken Souter's pilot's flying log book. One
Tags: 43 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; Boston; C-47; Dominie; Flying Training School; Harvard; Hurricane; Ju 52; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-40; pilot; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Ansty; RAF Aston Down; RAF Evanton; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
British Aircraft Recognition
Allied and Axis Aircraft
Tags: Anson; B-17; B-25; B-26; Beaufighter; Blenheim; Boston; Catalina; Do 18; Do 215; Do 217; Do 24; Fw 190; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Hampden; He 111; Hudson; Ju 52; Ju 87; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lysander; Manchester; Me 109; Me 110; Mosquito; P-38; P-40; Stirling; Sunderland; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley
Westland Lysander II
Tags: Lysander
Robert Palmer's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 109 Squadron; 15 OTU; 20 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Lancaster; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Hullavington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington