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- Tags: Manchester
Interview with Lillian Grundy
The Avro Repair Organisation. Langar
Plate with 'L7389'
The plate came from Avro…
Tags: Manchester
Avro Manchester
The caption describes two 1000 bomber operations that the aircraft took part in.
Account of German witness to crash of John Valentines aircraft
British, American and German Aeroplanes in Operational Service
The Kriegie June 1988
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; ground personnel; Hurricane; Lancaster; Manchester; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Binbrook; RAF Kinloss; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Kriegie June 1995
Tags: 106 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; Beaufighter; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Dulag Luft; escaping; evading; flight engineer; Fw 190; George Cross; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; memorial; Military Cross; prisoner of war; RAF Alconbury; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Honington; Scharnhorst; Spitfire; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 4; the long march; Victoria Cross; wireless operator
The Kriegie April 2004
Tags: 10 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Beaufighter; Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); entertainment; Halifax; Harvard; Lancaster; Manchester; memorial; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Hendon; RAF Little Rissington; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Typhoon; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Owen Cox
Albert Edward Edmunds’ pilots flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 27 OTU; 30 OTU; 608 Squadron; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; B-25; bombing; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Barford St John; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Downham Market; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hixon; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Prestwick; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington
The Exploits of Warrant Officer Arthur Pritchard
Tags: 463 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); crash; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; H2S; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Coningsby; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF Winthorpe; Resistance; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
Spitfire and Manchester
Photo 2 is a starboard side ground view of a Manchester.
Tags: Manchester; Spitfire
Alexander Gilbert’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 514 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); C-47; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Oxford; RAF Bardney; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Methwold; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Watton; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woolfox Lodge; training; York
Roy Chadwick BBC Broadcast
Avro Manchester airborne
Tags: 207 Squadron; Manchester
James Lee’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 467 Squadron; 99 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); C-47; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; missing in action; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Bottesford; RAF Dishforth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Ossington; RAF Scampton; training; York
Thomas Page's navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s log book
Tags: 1661 HCU; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Dominie; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Magister; Manchester; mine laying; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Shallufa; RAF St Athan; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training
Richard Starkey’s flying log book for pilots
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1661 HCU; 29 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); final resting place; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Desford; RAF Grantham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; RAF Winthorpe; shot down; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Bomber Command Operations from East Anglia 42-45
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); FIDO; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Operational Training Unit; RAF Downham Market; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Kemble; RAF Manston; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
Bomber Command
Tags: Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); FIDO; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Manston; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley
40,000 firebombs hit Mannheim at once
Tags: bombing; Halifax; Hampden; incendiary device; Lancaster; Manchester; Stirling; Wellington
Bertie Foxlee’s flying log book for observer’s and air gunners
Tags: 14 OTU; 25 OTU; 27 OTU; 455 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 81 OTU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Catalina; Dominie; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Lichfield; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tilstock; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner