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Samuel Guyan comments and memoirs
He sings several songs including 'Ops on a Stirling' to the tune of Waltzing Matilda,…
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evading; FIDO; Gee; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; operational training unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Manston; RAF Methwold; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; V-1; V-2; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Sergeant George B Thomson - Lancaster shot down
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 110; prisoner of war; shot down
J A Doxsey RAF observer's and air gunner's flying log book. One
Notebook
Lecture - "PRESS ON"
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); ditching; Fw 190; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; shot down; Spitfire; Typhoon; Walrus; Whitley
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Ian Henderson's diary 1944
Model Lancaster
Tags: 625 Squadron; Lancaster; Me 110
Engagement reports
Tags: 51 Squadron; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Me 110
World War II & Flying Memoirs
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; crash; Gee; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; York
Harold Dryhurst Service biography
Behind Enemy Lines
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bale out; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; Gneisenau; Hurricane; Me 110; memorial; navigator; prisoner of war; RAF Marham; RAF Tangmere; Scharnhorst; shot down; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; the long march; training; Wellington
Memoire of trip to France and events after D-Day
Pilot to Navigator - Where are we?
Tags: 100 Group; 4 Group; 425 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 77 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; entertainment; evading; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 109; Me 110; military service conditions; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cosford; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Manston; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Melbourne; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; Sunderland; target indicator; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Lancaster was all lit-up
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Lancaster; Me 110; wireless operator
Letter from J Catlin to Barry Wright's parents
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; flight engineer; Me 110; pilot
Four newspaper cuttings
Top center - crippled bomber lights full on won dog-fight. Account of enemy fighter attack on a bomber, wounding four crew and damaged aircraft. One enemy hit and the other…
Analysis of HQ 1 Group Combat Reports
Tags: 1 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Ju 88; Me 110
Captain's account of operation to Leipzig in February 1944
Letter and transcript of telephone inteview
Tags: 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); control caravan; crewing up; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; military discipline; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Athan; RAF Woodbridge; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Window
Messerschmitt Me 110
Photo 2 is two ground crew working on the nose of an aircraft.
Photo 3 is a port side view, on the ground.
Photo 4 is a front/port view from underneath.
Tags: Me 110
Ex-RCAF The Camp July 1983
Tags: 102 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 4 Group; 405 Squadron; 415 Squadron; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 429 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 433 Squadron; 434 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Catalina; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 110; memorial; navigator; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Driffield; RAF Leeming; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF Tholthorpe; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 7; Victoria Cross; wireless operator / air gunner