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- Tags: RAF Balderton
D E Owen’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers. Two
Tags: 149 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Scampton; RAF Stradishall; RAF Syerston; Stirling; training
Interview with Clifford Watson. One
Interview with Gerald Walter Bell
Interview with Ken Fawcett
Tags: 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cook’s tour; crash; ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wellington
Interview with Maurice Bailey
Tags: 227 Squadron; aircrew; crash; flight engineer; Lancaster; RAF Balderton; Stirling
Interview with Syd Grimes
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crewing up; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Malcolm Staves Diary
Me - William Roy Peter Perry DFC
Tags: 106 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Registered numbers and squadron letters (& fate) of Manchester & Lancasters flown
Ron's rogues gallery
Tags: 106 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Manchester; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Roy Briggs' flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 576 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Catterick; RAF Cranwell; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Graveley; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Seighford; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Sydney Grimes' observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Madley; RAF Scampton; RAF Sturgate; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; Wellington; wireless operator
Ted Foster DFM and Lancasters in flight
Terence Leedham's career
W R P Perry pilot's flying log book. Three
Tags: 106 Squadron; 227 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); C-47; Cook’s tour; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Operation Dodge (1945); Oxford; pilot; RAF Balderton; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; York
W R P Perry pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 106 Squadron; 227 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); C-47; Cook’s tour; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Balderton; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Ossington; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; training; Wellington; York