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Letter and target photograph
Bottom - target photograph Courtrai showing…
Tags: bombing; RAF Pocklington; target photograph
"Pocka Gen" - RAF Pocklington station magazine
Tags: RAF Pocklington
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
Letter to Albert Millson from Air Ministry
Tags: aircrew; entertainment; RAF Pocklington
Hanover Rail Depot
It is captioned ' 2901 PCK 22/23-9-43 // NT 8" 19000--> 130 M 2143 Hanover RD. X. 2 x 1000 5 x 4 6 x 30 37…
Les Mureaux
Trappes Rail Depot
The first is captioned '4156 PCK 6/7:3:44// NT 8" 12300' --- Trappes RD 6 x 1000 9 x 500 S/L Millson F/102'.
The second is captioned ' 4155 PCK 6/7:3:44 // NT 8" 12300' --- 159M…
Dusseldorf Rail Depot
It is captioned '3534 PCK 3/4:11:43 // NT 8" 16500' --- 1950 059M Dusseldorf RD. Q. 2 x…
Mine laying
It is captioned ' 4295 PCK 22/23 .3.44 //NT 8" 14500' --- 271T 2123. Gardening. E. 2x1500 s3 secs S/L Millson L/102'.
Kassel Rail Depot
It is captioned '3485 PCK 22/23:10:43 // NT 8" 16000'--- Kassel RD. Z. 2 x 1000 8 x 4 3 x 30 S/L…
Courtrai
The first is captioned '4343 PCK 26/27:3:44//NT 8" 12500' ---184M 2102. Courtrai RD E 5x1000 10x500 24 secs S/L Millson L/102' There are two shadows of aircraft in the centre of the…
Letter to Alan from Jess Lay
Tags: RAF Pocklington
Letter from Alan Lancaster to Simon
Tags: RAF Pocklington
Albert Millson’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Posted to 12 Operational Training…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 102 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1652 HCU; 21 OTU; aircrew; animal; Anson; B-17; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); C-47; Distinguished Flying Medal; Flying Training School; Gneisenau; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; mine laying; Mosquito; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Benson; RAF Broadwell; RAF Desford; RAF Grantham; RAF Honington; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Oakington; RAF Pocklington; RAF Ratmalana; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF West Raynham; Scharnhorst; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Millson's "War & Peace" Abridged
Tags: 101 Squadron; 102 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Gneisenau; ground crew; Halifax; mess; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Benson; RAF Bourn; RAF Desford; RAF Lyneham; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rochester; RAF West Raynham; recruitment; Scharnhorst; searchlight; training; Wellington; York
Conversation with Heinz Rökke & Jack Bromfield
Tags: 100 Group; 158 Squadron; 4 Group; 408 Squadron; 426 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; anti-Semitism; bale out; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; decoy site; Do 217; evading; FIDO; Fw 190; Halifax; He 111; Ju 87; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Me 163; Me 262; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Cranfield; RAF Elvington; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Pocklington; Schräge Musik; shot down; Spitfire; Stalag Luft 1; Stirling; target indicator; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Conversation with Joe Petrie-Andrews with participation by Jack Bromfield (Halifax wireless operator 158 Squadron).
Conversation with Les Giddings
Leslie Giddings memoir
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 207 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Me 110; prisoner of war; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF St Athan; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag 357; Stalag Luft 6; training
Arthur Mace's diary 8th January 1942 to 15th March 1944
There is a second diary for 1943 only and its contents are identical to the first diary.
A third diary covers 1944.
Tags: 214 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bombing; Botha; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; Halifax; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; Lysander; medical officer; mess; mine laying; missing in action; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Abingdon; RAF Breighton; RAF Driffield; RAF Evanton; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Lasham; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Madley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Riccall; RAF St Eval; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Yatesbury; searchlight; sport; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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
Transcription of interview with Andrew Barron
Tags: 100 Group; 223 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-17; C-47; Fw 190; H2S; Halifax; Me 109; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; RAF Castle Bromwich; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oulton; RAF Pocklington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Tarrant Rushton; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; V-2; V-weapon; Window; York
Gus Fraser notes
Tags: 102 Squadron; aircrew; Halifax; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Pocklington; shot down
Noel Pearce in group photograph
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; Halifax; prisoner of war; RAF Pocklington; shot down