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- Tags: RAF Driffield
Interview with Keith Campbell. Two
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); coping mechanism; crewing up; Gee; H2S; Halifax; memorial; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; Red Cross; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; superstition; the long march; training
Interview with Laurence Harbutt
Interview with Les Davies
Interview with Mary Ward. One
Tags: aircrew; bombing; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); control tower; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; Gee; ground personnel; Intelligence Officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; mess; military living conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Melksham; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Mary Ward. Two
Tags: aircrew; animal; briefing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; debriefing; fear; final resting place; grief; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; heirloom; Intelligence Officer; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; military service conditions; operations room; RAF Driffield; RAF Linton on Ouse; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Maurice Roberts
Interview with Peter Charles Hearmon
After RAF Padgate, Peter was selected as…
Tags: 61 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; fuelling; Gee; Harvard; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; perimeter track; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Chivenor; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Hullavington; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Upwood; RAF Wittering; RAF Wyton; training
Interview with Ronald Last
Tags: 466 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Dulag Luft; escaping; Halifax; lack of moral fibre; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Harwell; RAF Leconfield; recruitment; sanitation; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Marlow
Tags: 14 OTU; 466 Squadron; 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; memorial; military discipline; military ethos; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Driffield; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Skellingthorpe; searchlight; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Thomas Aiden Davidson
J B McManus - pilot's flying log book
Tags: 1663 HCU; 21 OTU; 466 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; Dominie; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Martinet; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; Proctor; RAF Clyffe Pypard; RAF Driffield; RAF Hawarden; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Rufforth; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
J C Cockram and crew
Second and third are the crew posed in front of Halifax 'Jane' on dispersal, servicing equipment in the background.
Fourth is of a Halifax…
J F Latimer’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 100 Group; 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 21 OTU; 462 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Driffield; RAF Foulsham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Mona; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RCAF Fingal; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
J.C. Cockram’s RCAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 462 Squadron; 466 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF West Freugh; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Jeff Brown's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 11 OTU; 149 Squadron; 1668 HCU; 576 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Martinet; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Bottesford; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Burn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dalcross; RAF Driffield; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Marham; RAF Oakley; RAF Sturgate; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF Westcott; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
John Mitchell's flying log book. One
Tags: 19 OTU; 58 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crash; forced landing; Operational Training Unit; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Driffield; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Ken Oakes - Royal Australian Air Force observer's air gunner's and w/t operator's flying log book
Tags: 1652 HCU; 1663 HCU; 27 OTU; 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Heavy Conversion Unit; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Catfoss; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Kiel
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality…
Kiel
L Britt’s flying log book for pilots
Tags: 1652 HCU; 21 OTU; 462 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; C-47; Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lincoln; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; P-51; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Driffield; RAF Foulsham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Watchfield; RAF Worksop; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Laurence Larmer's Royal Australian Air Force flying log book
Tags: 1658 HCU; 27 OTU; 466 Squadron; 51 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Banff; RAF Dallachy; RAF Driffield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Riccall; RAF Snaith; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Le Havre
Letter from Pat Hogan to his father
Letter to Mr Jackson from M Algar
Tags: RAF Driffield