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- Tags: RAF Binbrook
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
John Alfred Wright's life story
Ernest Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 30 OTU; 460 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Finningley; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wickenby; training; Wellington
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Interview with Percival Trotman
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Flying Training School; forced landing; Initial Training Wing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with John Foster Thorp
Tags: 467 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); civil defence; crewing up; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); RAF Binbrook; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodbridge; Stirling; training; Wellington
Ian Archer Wynn memorial book
Letter from padre at RAF Binbrook to Mrs K Wynn
Tags: missing in action; RAF Binbrook
Letter from Padre RAF Binbrook to Mrs K Wynn
Tags: faith; missing in action; RAF Binbrook
Ian Archer Wynn diary
Interview with Gerard Norwood
Interview with Christopher George McVickers
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Hemswell; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Yatesbury; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Peter Liddle
Interview with Ralph Freeman
Interview with Pauline Ferdinando
Interview with Alan Avery Farr
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 OTU; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; FIDO; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; love and romance; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Lichfield; RAF Waterbeach; recruitment; training; Wellington
Interview with Darwin Evans
George Toombs’ flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 1667 HCU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Binbrook; RAF Hemswell; RAF Sandtoft; tactical support for Normandy troops; training
Le Havre
Emmerich
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Le Havre docks
Le Havre
Le Havre
Captioned 'Captioned 'BIN 5-8-44 //8 12000' [arrow] 150 1841 Le Havre Li 13x1000 4x500 c5secs F/O Lester N 460'.