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- Tags: Oboe
Interview with Peter Steward
The lucky crew
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; mine laying; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Dr Marjorie Birch
Memory of Mailly-Le-Camp
Tags: 1 Group; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); debriefing; Gee; grief; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Woodhall Spa; target indicator
World War II service History of Flight Lieutenant WH Brooker DFC
Initially he served on Wellingtons at Snaith. He describes…
Tags: 27 OTU; 463 Squadron; 467 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Meteor; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Portal, Charles (1893-1971); RAF Bottesford; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Lichfield; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Snaith; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); searchlight; Spitfire; training; Wellington; Window
51 Squadron, 4 Group, RAF Bomber Command
Tags: 4 Group; 5 Group; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; 8 Group; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mess; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Burn; RAF Carnaby; RAF Elvington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lissett; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Odiham; RAF Snaith; RAF Tangmere; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; Typhoon; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Bomb aimers briefing 5 June 1944
Bomb aimers briefing - Paris marshalling yards
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; target indicator; Window
Bombing method
Tags: bombing; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 24 March 1945 - Berchtesgaden
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; Oboe; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimer notes
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Oboe; target indicator
Bomb aimers briefing 5 January 1943
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Master Bomber; Oboe; target indicator
Bomb aimers briefing 26 December 1944 - St Vith
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Master Bomber; Oboe; P-51; Spitfire; target indicator
Bomb timers briefing 9 December 1944 - Urft Dam
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Master Bomber; Oboe; target indicator
Bomb aimers briefing 10 April 1945 - Leipzig
Tags: 44 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; Oboe; RAF Spilsby; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 23 March 1945 - Wesel
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; Oboe; RAF Spilsby; target indicator
Bomb aimers briefing 2 November 1944 - Dusseldorf
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Oboe; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 1 November 1944 Homberg (Meerbeck oil plant)
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Oboe; target indicator
Bomb aimers briefing 9 September 1944 - Monchen-Gladbach
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Master Bomber; Oboe; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 17 August 1944 - Foret-De Lisle Adam
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; RAF Waddington; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 3 August 1944 Joessy St Maxmin [sic]
Bomb aimers briefing 2 August 1944
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Oboe; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 20 July 1944 - Courtrai
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; target indicator; Window
Bomb aimers briefing 19 July 1944 - Creil
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Master Bomber; Oboe; Spitfire; target indicator; Window; wireless operator
Bomb aimers briefing 14 July 1944 - Villeneuve
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Master Bomber; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; target indicator; Window