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- Tags: RAF Fiskerton
Six Airmen
'L to R
Back Row
Harry Bamforth "Smudge" Smith (Ron) Fred Outwin
Taffy, Nobby Red
A. Able Ground Crew
49 Fiskerton'.
George Charles Bedford
He was the Flight Engineer on A G Edgar's crew in 1944 on 49 Squadron at RAF Fiskerton and with 83 Squadron at RAF Coningsby.
William H Cooke’s navigators, air bombers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 49 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; radar; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Robert Holman personal service record
V Group News, May 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; flight engineer; ground personnel; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; radar; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; rivalry; sport; Stirling; training; wireless operator
F Dray’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 576 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; operational training unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Ingham; RAF Sandtoft; training; Wellington
Jeff Brown's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
VE Day Lancaster crash
576 Squadron Order of Battle No.290
Interview with Geoffrey Charles Spencer
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; demobilisation; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Swinderby; Spitfire; Stirling; training; York
Interview with Frank Stafford
Interview with Sidney James Richards
Interview with Alan Morgan
Interview with Ronald Mather
Tags: 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Lancaster; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; wireless operator
Interview with William Hough
Tags: 576 Squadron; 582 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; 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
Interview with Margaret Hodgin
Margaret was about eleven when…
Before I was in the RAF by Reg Payne
Tags: 5 Group; 50 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bomb struck; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; heirloom; Home Guard; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; lynching; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Waddington; RAF Wittering; sanitation; superstition; training; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Aviation Memory
Tags: 102 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Madley; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Melbourne; RAF North Coates; RAF North Weald; RAF Padgate; RAF Pocklington; RAF Saltby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wittering; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner