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- Tags: RAF Castle Kennedy
Charlie Darby’s observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1658 HCU; 21 OTU; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Me 109; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Driffield; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; searchlight; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Flying Officer A. Bonney’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 142 Squadron; 21 OTU; 31 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; C-47; Hudson; Martinet; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Shenington; training; Warsaw airlift (4 August - 28 September 1944); Wellington
Interview with Charlie Darby
Tags: 100 Group; 1658 HCU; 21 OTU; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Carnaby; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Driffield; RAF Foulsham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; sanitation; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Owen Cox
Interview with William Hough
Tags: 1656 HCU; 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 262; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Worksop; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Ivor Cole's log book
Tags: 103 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 1667 HCU; 28 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; C-47; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Wymeswold; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Letter from Dennis Batty to his mother
Letter from Dennis Batty to his parents
Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
Letter from Peter Lamprey to W Gunton
Peter Lamprey
Peter Thompson’s Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 11 OTU; 1653 HCU; 195 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Lyneham; RAF Madley; RAF Oakley; RAF Riccall; RAF West Freugh; RAF Westcott; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; York