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- Tags: RAF Croft
Berlin
Halifax Taking-Off
Information supplied with the collection states 'Croft 10 December 1943. WAAFs wave farewell to the…
Seven Airmen
Tags: aircrew; Nissen hut; RAF Croft
Seven Airmen
On the reverse 'Halifax Mk V Poss SE-W LL258'
and
'Left to right as viewed
"Jock" Heron M/O
"Ned" Sparkes F/Eng
"Badge"Badgery (RAAF) Pilot
"Archie" Pitt Nav
"Jack" Page…
Halifax III - Evidence of Collision
Tags: 10 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; 424 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 578 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; crash; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Me 109; mid-air collision; navigator; pilot; RAF Croft; RAF Snaith; wireless operator
431 Squadron crashed Lancaster
Tags: 431 Squadron; crash; Lancaster; RAF Croft
Reg Harrison
From information kindly provided by the donor. 'Harrison standing outside the Flight Room of 431 Squadron. The bicycle was the…
Reg Harrison
Reg Harrison and a Halifax
From information kindly supplied by…
Tags: 431 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; pilot; RAF Croft
Gordon Dumville and Hal Phillips
Tags: 431 Squadron; aircrew; crash; killed in action; RAF Croft; take-off crash
Maurice Content and Bob Hooker
Tags: 431 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Nissen hut; RAF Croft
Maurice Content and Reg Harrison
Reg Harrison and crew
Reg Harrison
78 Squadron photograph
Tags: 78 Squadron; Halifax; RAF Croft
Aircraft and crews
Top right - seven airmen pose in line under the nose of a Halifax, Captioned 'George ground crew'.
Top two titled…
78 Squadron photograph
Tags: 78 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; RAF Croft
Three airmen
431 Squadron
Tags: 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bombing; ground crew; Halifax; Lancaster; RAF Burn; RAF Croft; RAF Tholthorpe; Wellington
Operations
Below - two documents giving accounts of these two operations with types of aircraft used, losses, enemy fighter operations, weather,…
Operations, the railway plan
Top left - extract from Ned Sparkes's logbook from 1 March 1944 to 29 March 1944 with operations to Trappes, Le Mans (twice), Brest,…
Tags: 3 Group; 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 5 Group; 6 Group; 8 Group; aircrew; bombing; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; RAF Croft; Stirling
Operations
Right - three short documents one partially obscured two relating to flying bomb sites, and…
Memorial and reunion Royal Canadian Air Force Croft
Bottom left - photograph of five men wearing blazers, shirt and tie standing by a white memorial stone.
Bottom right - front cover of…
Tags: memorial; RAF Catterick; RAF Croft
78 Squadron history
A second copy is a typed version of this.
Tags: 10 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 158 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 1659 HCU; 1663 HCU; 187 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 297 Squadron; 346 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 4 Group; 405 Squadron; 408 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 58 Squadron; 6 Group; 617 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 9 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Breighton; RAF Croft; RAF Dalton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; Tirpitz; training; Whitley
Christmas greetings card
Tags: 13 OTU; Operational Training Unit; RAF Croft; training