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- Tags: Pathfinders
Letter to Raymond Keating's Sister
Bill Foskett Biography Chapter Three
The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.
Tags: 100 Group; 15 OTU; 214 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); flight engineer; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Harwell; RAF Honington; RAF Methwold; RAF Millom; RAF Oulton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Shipdham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Woodbridge; Stearman; Stirling; superstition; Tallboy; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Flight Sergeant Harry Wilson Distinguished Flying Medal
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Andover's Lancasters
Tags: 156 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Grand Slam; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; military discipline; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bardney; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; Spitfire; take-off crash; Tallboy; Tirpitz; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
William Elliot Siddle
Tags: 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Wyton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Robert George Sharland and Beryl Lilian Sharland's wedding
Pathfinders Badge Certificate
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Tags: aircrew; killed in action; Pathfinders
Percy Robert Lyford
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Tags: aircrew; killed in action; Pathfinders; training
Excerpt of Bob Cooke's Log Book
Don Evans' decorations and badges
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Tags: 8 Group; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Pathfinders; pilot
Lancaster F for Fox
Snowy at Investiture receiving DFM
Roseneath, Riley Car, Mosquito and Rollo Kingsford-Smith
#2 is a car, captioned 'The original "Old Mother Riley" Mk1'.
#3 is a starboard side view of a Mosquito, captioned 'Rollo Kingsford-Smith's Mosquito AZ-R 627,…
Tags: 627 Squadron; aircrew; Mosquito; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Woodhall Spa
Memories of Past Times
Tags: 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Caterpillar Club; flight engineer; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 110; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Oakington; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; sport; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 6; Stirling; the long march; Tiger Moth; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Whitley
Stirlings and Parachutists
#2 is three parachutists close to the ground.
#3 is a Stirling dropping containers,…
Tags: Pathfinders; Spitfire; Stirling
Ikey Love's Badges
#1 a Pathfinder badge.
#2 a Caterpillar club badge.
Tags: aircrew; Caterpillar Club; Pathfinders
Keith Hailey
Bob Burns - the hundred mile walk (Stalag Luft VII to Berlin) with saxophone and clarinet
One Day in May on a Bomber Station
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; flight engineer; fuelling; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; mess; meteorological officer; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Dalton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Topcliffe; superstition; target indicator; wireless operator
19/20th May 1942 Target Mannheim
Laurie Howes
#1 Laurie in a Sidcot suit.
#2 Laurie sitting on rocks.
#3 Laurie standing by a wooden door.
#4 Laurie sitting on a railing at a beach.
#5 a half length portrait of Laurie.
#6 a colour portrait of Laurie.
Tags: 635 Squadron; aircrew; Pathfinders
Artie Ashworth's Crew
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Tags: 635 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; Pathfinders
635 Squadron Group Photograph
DFM Award to Pathfinder
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