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- Tags: Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944)
Letter to Douglas Hudson from his parents
Allen Gould’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Warrant Officer George Bailey and Horsa Gliders
Photo 2 is a Horsa being towed by a Halifax.
Photo 3 is a Horsa in D-day markings.
Interview with Bob Smith
Headline cutting
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; final resting place; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); grief; incendiary device; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranwell; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
Interview with James Ferguson Latimer
Interview with Lillian Grundy
Letter from John Valentine to his wife Ursula
Memory of Mailly-Le-Camp
Mr Churchills war memoirs
Letter to Kaye Turner from Ron Turner
V Group News, August 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; pilot; radar; rivalry; sport; Stirling; training; wireless operator
V Group News, July 1944
Operations June 1944
V Group News, June 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb dump; bombing; Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; radar; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; rivalry; tractor; training; wireless operator
Harold Kirby’s flight engineers log book
Tags: 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); crash; flight engineer; forced landing; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training