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- Tags: RAF Metheringham
Hurricane
Tags: Hurricane; RAF Metheringham; training
James Calman
Tags: 106 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Metheringham
The Horry Brothers Memoir
There is a short memoir about Frank and a longer memoir about Freddie.
There are three stories about different operations.
The Crew
'Vic' Prettejohns replaced original Flight engineer. Underneath is annotated the crew's names and positions.…
Richard Starkey’s flying log book for pilots
John Harrison’s navigator’s, air gunner’s and air bomber’s flying log book
J Barnes’ pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 106 Squadron; 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Cook’s tour; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lysander; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Netheravon; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Upavon; RAF Watton; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Bits and Pieces from a Long Career
V Group News, April 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; radar; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
Interview with Lester Simms
Interview with Donald Rainey
Interview with Ken Oatley
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Ronald Needle
Malcolm Staves, 207 Squadron Veteran
Tags: 106 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 207 Squadron; aircrew; animal; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); entertainment; Lancaster; memorial; Operation Dodge (1945); Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Dumfries; RAF Madley; RAF Metheringham; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; wireless operator
Interview with Mervyn Jones
Tags: 106 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); Lancaster; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Swinderby; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Gilbert Gray
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Air Transport Auxiliary; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; fear; FIDO; flight engineer; Fw 190; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; sport; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Rachel and John Gill
Tags: 106 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; bale out; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; final resting place; Gneisenau; H2S; Hampden; heavy conversion unit; heirloom; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; memorial; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Cranwell; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Finningley; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Metheringham; RAF Polebrook; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wigsley; Royal Observer Corps; Scharnhorst; Stirling; take-off crash; training; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Harold Harvey
Robert Anderson's memoir
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); fear; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Lichfield; RAF Metheringham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; service vehicle; Tiger force; tractor; training; Wellington; Yale
Interview with Margaret Horry
Tags: 106 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; grief; killed in action; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; perception of bombing war; RAF Bardney; RAF Metheringham; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Wickenby; Tirpitz; wireless operator
Interview with John Harrison
Interview with William Bullock
Ernest Cutts’ air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 466 Squadron; 467 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Battle; bombing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Me 410; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Driffield; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Metheringham; training; Wellington
Gunners of 467 Squadron at RAF Metheringham
Tags: 467 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; RAF Metheringham