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- Tags: Operation Catechism (12 November 1944)
Warrant Officer Jack Penswick 1497486 Air Gunner
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Tirpitz
Gumbley Crew
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Jack Penswick’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Botha; Grand Slam; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Morpeth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Recommendation for Immediate Award
Wing Commander Tait
Poster for Tirpitz celebration dance
V Group News, November 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; H2S; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); pilot; radar; rivalry; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Interview with Frank Tilley
Interview with Sam Thompson
Interview with Mary Stopes-Roe
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bouncing bomb; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); childhood in wartime; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Grand Slam; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Tallboy; Tirpitz; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
Interview with Hugh Rogers
Service History of Benny Goodman
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; crewing up; Flying Training School; fuelling; Grand Slam; ground crew; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Martinet; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cardington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
No 617 Squadron and the operation to breach the dams
Interview with Benny Goodman. Two
Tags: 51 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Grand Slam; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; intelligence officer; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Magister; Me 262; military discipline; military living conditions; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); perimeter track; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Leconfield; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; sanitation; Stirling; submarine; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Interview with Benny Goodman. One
Visitors from famous Dambusters' squadron
Dambusters Honoured
Bob Knights' Obituary
Tags: 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); pilot; submarine; Tallboy; Tirpitz; V-1; V-weapon
Ernie Twells' Obituary and letter from the King
A letter from the King awarding Ernie Twells his Distinguished Flying Cross.
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter engine; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Lancaster; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tirpitz; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Tirpitz capsized
'Battleship Tirpitz
Tirpitz 15 June 1945'.
Ernie Twells and airmen
Munich and of the Tirpitz
A target photograph of the…
Rupert the bear mascot
Ernie Twells’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bramcote; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington