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- Tags: RAF Silverstone
Don Cameron’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Oakington; RAF Silverstone; RAF Snaith; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training; Wellington; York
World War II & Flying Memoirs
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; Gee; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; York
E J Haddow’s navigator’s air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Len Manning’s navigator’s air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Transcript of interview with Allan Edgar
He starts by describing crewing up at Silverstone. His opinion of the Stirling was that it was awful on the ground and in the air.
His first operation was a second 'dickie' (an observer)…
Tags: 1 Group; 49 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; He 111; heavy conversion unit; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; mess; navigator; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Ron Gard’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Arthur Atkinson’s observers and air gunners flying log book
James Stewart’s flying log book for aircrew other than pilot.
Ken Beard’s flying log book for air gunners
Gordon Cruickshank's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers. Two
Tags: 100 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; mine laying; operational training unit; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Spilsby; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Westcott; training; Wellington; Whitley
Gordon Cruickshank's observers and air gunners flying log book. One
Tags: 100 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; mine laying; operational training unit; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Spilsby; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Westcott; training; Wellington; Whitley
Memoir Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cruickshank D.F.M. RAFRO
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Medal; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; Mosquito; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Credenhill; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Stanmore Park; RAF Swinderby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Warmwell; superstition; Victoria Cross; Whitley
Harold Blow’s pilots flying log book
B W Allen’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Alan Payne’s South African Air Force observers or air gunners log book
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; faith; fear; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military living conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; training; Wellington
Interview with Ron Priest
Interview with Ray Parke
Tags: 218 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); displaced person; ethnic or religious minorities; flight engineer; Gee; Lancaster; military service conditions; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Silverstone; RAF St Athan; Stirling; training; Wellington
Philip Batty's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Interview with Sidney Knott
Interview with Ken Fawcett
Tags: 227 Squadron; 619 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb struck; bombing; crash; ground personnel; heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Balderton; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranwell; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; training; Wellington
Interview with James Albert Dellow
Ronald Mathers pilots flying log book. One
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Dominie; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; Operation Dodge (1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
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; bombing; Caterpillar Club; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; 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; training; Wellington; Window; wireless operator