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- Tags: RAF Kinloss
Three airmen
Tags: aircrew; Halifax; RAF Kinloss
Interview with Richard Murray Allen
Interview with Mike Chatterton
Interview with Mary Stanley Foister
Interview with Hugh Lorimer
Daphne Brownlie Interview
She tells of the hours she and her colleagues worked and also what life was like on the base, including her…
Interview with Bill Lucas. One
Flew 14…
Tags: 15 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); fear; grief; ground crew; H2S; lack of moral fibre; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; Oboe; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Honington; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wyton; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Harry Gough
Interview with Derek Jones
Rascal’s flying log book for aircrew mascot
Tags: 635 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Proctor; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Tilstock; RAF Upwood; RAF Yatesbury; superstition; Wellington; Whitley
James Wrigley's flying log book
Tags: 199 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 81 OTU; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Blenheim; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bourn; RAF Downham Market; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Tilstock; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Interview with Neil Harris
Tags: 50 Squadron; 578 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter airframe; Gee; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hudson; Lincoln; love and romance; Master Bomber; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Burn; RAF Halton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Rufforth; RAF Waddington; Tiger force; training
Interview with Ernest Holmes
Interview with Janet Hughes, One
Interview with Mark Johnson
Tags: 102 Squadron; 103 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; ethnic or religious minorities; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; military ethos; Mosquito; operational training unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Kinloss; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; Stalag Luft 1; Stalag Luft 3; training; Whitley
Interview with Jack Kenneth Lyon
Interview with Peter Morris
Tags: 106 Squadron; 120 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing up; ground personnel; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lincoln; navigator; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Douglas Frank Newham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 156 Squadron; aircrew; Blenheim; bombing; Botha; C-47; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Lancaster; Lancastrian; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; observer; operational training unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Kirmington; RAF Melbourne; RAF Warboys; rivalry; training; Wellington; Whitley; York
David Philip Storey's operations
This item was provided, in digital form, by a…
Tags: 158 Squadron; 51 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); fear; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Me 109; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Lissett; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Snaith; RAF Worksop; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
David Storey's observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Me 109; navigator; operational training unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Rufforth; RAF Snaith; RAF Westcott; RAF Wigtown; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Douglas Arthur Smith
Tags: 158 Squadron; 76 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lissett; RAF Riccall; RAF Shepherds Grove; shot down; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Cyril J Barton’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 578 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Breighton; RAF Burn; RAF Kinloss; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Snaith; Stearman; training; Whitley
The Story of Flight Lieutenant John J Blair, DFC
John was born in 1919 to a poor…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 216 Squadron; 4 Group; 78 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; ethnic or religious minorities; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; medical officer; mid-air collision; military service conditions; mine laying; missing in action; Mosquito; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Kinloss; RAF Oakington; RAF Pocklington; RAF Tangmere; sport; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Course photographs RAF St Mawgan and RAF Kinloss
Tags: Lancaster; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Mawgan; Shackleton; training
Hedley R Madgett’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Harvard; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; Oxford; pilot; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Syerston; RAF Wattisham; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley