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- Tags: RAF Croft
Around the world
Tags: RAF Akeman Street; RAF Breighton; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Croft; RAF Exeter; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Gaydon; RAF Grove; RAF Halton; RAF Hatfield; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hendon; RAF High Ercall; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Holmsley South; RAF Honington; RAF Hurn; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Lichfield; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Lyneham; RAF Melbourne; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Molesworth; RAF Netheravon; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Ossington; RAF Peplow; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Saltby; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Staverton; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Talbenny; RAF Wattisham; RAF Westcott; RAF Woolfox Lodge
Christmas greetings card
Tags: 13 OTU; Operational Training Unit; RAF Croft; training
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
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
Operations
Right - three short documents one partially obscured two relating to flying bomb sites, and…
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
Below - two documents giving accounts of these two operations with types of aircraft used, losses, enemy fighter operations, weather,…
431 Squadron
Tags: 4 Group; 431 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bombing; ground crew; Halifax; Lancaster; RAF Burn; RAF Croft; RAF Tholthorpe; Wellington
Three airmen
78 Squadron photograph
Tags: 78 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; 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; Halifax; RAF Croft
Reg Harrison
Reg Harrison and crew
Maurice Content and Reg Harrison
Maurice Content and Bob Hooker
Tags: 431 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Nissen hut; RAF Croft
Gordon Dumville and Hal Phillips
Tags: 431 Squadron; aircrew; crash; killed in action; RAF Croft; take-off crash
Reg Harrison and a Halifax
From information kindly supplied by…
Tags: 431 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; pilot; RAF Croft
Reg Harrison
Reg Harrison
From information kindly provided by the donor. 'Harrison standing outside the Flight Room of 431 Squadron. The bicycle was the…
431 Squadron crashed Lancaster
Tags: 431 Squadron; crash; Lancaster; RAF Croft
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
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…
Seven Airmen
Tags: aircrew; Nissen hut; RAF Croft