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- Tags: Manchester
Spoof photograph and airborne Manchesters
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; arts and crafts; bombing; Manchester; pilot; RAF Syerston
106 Squadron
RAF Wigsley Station Sick Quarters
#2 is 12 men and women from the SSQ staff.
#3 is 12 men and women in front of trucks, captioned 'Staff'.
#4 is a red and white control caravan.
#5 is an ambulance.
#6 is a Nissen hut…
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
50 Squadron losses April - June 1942
Registered numbers and squadron letters (& fate) of Manchester & Lancasters flown
History of 106 Squadron
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-weapon
Crash map
Tags: 51 Squadron; crash; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Manchester
Service history
Pilot Officer Ernest Henry Tansley 149542 VR biography
Tags: 16 OTU; 1661 HCU; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bramcote; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Mepal; RAF Paignton; RAF Pocklington; RAF Scampton; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Windrush; RAF Winthorpe; recruitment; shot down; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
40,000 firebombs hit Mannheim at once
Tags: bombing; Halifax; Hampden; incendiary device; Lancaster; Manchester; Stirling; Wellington
Avro Manchester airborne
Tags: 207 Squadron; Manchester
Spitfire and Manchester
Photo 2 is a starboard side ground view of a Manchester.
Tags: Manchester; Spitfire
Account of German witness to crash of John Valentines aircraft
Avro Manchester
The caption describes two 1000 bomber operations that the aircraft took part in.
Plate with 'L7389'
The plate came from Avro…
Tags: Manchester
Terence Leedham's life
Terence Leedham's career
Commemorative Plaque
On the left and right - RAF bases and operations carried out from them.
On the right - a map on northern Europe and United…
March 13 1941
Tags: aircrew; crash; Manchester; shot down
Frank Hobbs’ observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); crash; Dominie; final resting place; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF East Kirkby; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Pembrey; RAF Penrhos; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Yatesbury; superstition; take-off crash; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Flying Officer Leslie Thomas Manser, Victoria Cross
Notes on aircraft
Repairs to Manchester
Tags: 61 Squadron; ground crew; ground personnel; Manchester