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- Tags: RAF St Athan
The lucky crew
Tags: 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; military living conditions; mine laying; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Oakington; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; training; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Albert Smith
Tags: 170 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); entertainment; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; military discipline; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF St Athan; searchlight; training
Interview with Alan Morgan
Interview with Tony Gerard
Tags: 7 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bridlington; RAF Burtonwood; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Valley; RAF Weston-super-Mare; Stirling; training
Training as a flight engineer on Lancasters
Interview with Malcolm Francis Morris
Letter and transcript of telephone interview
Tags: 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); control caravan; crewing up; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; military discipline; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Athan; RAF Woodbridge; Scarecrow; searchlight; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Window
Interview with Kenneth Walter Prowse Symonds
Interview with David Wilkie
Interview with Thomas Aiden Davidson
Biography of Reg Miles
Tags: 346 Squadron; 347 Squadron; 420 Squadron; 425 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 432 Squadron; 6 Group; 77 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bomb aimer; C-47; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); control caravan; crash; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight engineer; Fw 190; Gee; Grand Slam; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; Hampden; hangar; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); home front; Hurricane; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Manchester; Master Bomber; Me 109; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Carnaby; RAF Dishforth; RAF East Moor; RAF Elvington; RAF Halton; RAF Langar; RAF Lyneham; RAF Manston; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Prestwick; RAF Shawbury; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Skipton on Swale; RAF St Athan; RAF St Eval; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Tilstock; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; runway; Scarecrow; searchlight; Second Tactical Air Force; service vehicle; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Window; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
Ray Barrett's record of service and postings
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; RAF St Athan
Poem - 'The Battle for Egypt'
Tags: RAF St Athan
List of Ray Wells' RAF Stations
Ray Charlton Memoir
Christmas Card sent by Ken Barnett
Tags: aircrew; RAF St Athan; Stirling
James Gordon Bennet (Lucky Jim) Burnside - biography
Part 2 - war service of Flying Officer James Gordon Bennett Burnside flight engineer. Covers training as flight engineer. Then follows short descriptions. listing…
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Halifax; Lancaster; Mosquito; RAF Balderton; RAF North Luffenham; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
The Offensive Phase
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 169 Squadron; 171 Squadron; 192 Squadron; 199 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 223 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 462 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Chamberlain, Neville (1869-1940); crash; Defiant; Do 217; Fw 190; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 110; Me 410; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Defford; RAF Downham Market; RAF Farnborough; RAF Foulsham; RAF Little Snoring; RAF North Creake; RAF Northolt; RAF Oulton; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swannington; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Raynham; RAF Wittering; Scharnhorst; Stalin, Joseph (1878-1953); Stirling; Tirpitz; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
The Radio War Waged by the RAF Against Germany 1940-1945
Tags: 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 218 Squadron; Anson; B-17; B-24; Blenheim; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Do 217; Gee; Gneisenau; Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); ground personnel; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); He 111; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hudson; Ju 52; Ju 88; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Oboe; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; radar; RAF Bawdsey; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Defford; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Oulton; RAF St Athan; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley; Window; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Peter Hattersley's Service Diary
Tags: 1 Group; 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; arts and crafts; Battle; C-47; Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bawtry; RAF Blyton; RAF Catfoss; RAF Cosford; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Manston; RAF Netheravon; RAF Oakington; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Uxbridge; RAF Waddington; Stalag Luft 3; training
I Flew with Nine Wing Commanders
Tags: 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 50 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; debriefing; dispersal; Distinguished Flying Medal; Do 217; entertainment; final resting place; fitter airframe; fitter engine; flight engineer; fuelling; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 3; He 111; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mess; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; nose art; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); pilot; promotion; RAF Cosford; RAF Faldingworth; RAF Halton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Scampton; RAF St Athan; RAF Sturgate; RAF Tilstock; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; target photograph; training; Whitley; Window
Units Peter Baxter served at
Philip Hopgood's Second World War Biography
Tags: 1651 HCU; 1652 HCU; 1658 HCU; 1663 HCU; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cornell; crewing up; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; RAF Catterick; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Graveley; RAF Kirkham; RAF Locking; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF Sealand; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Interview with Ray Charlton
Interview with Harold Kirby. One
Tags: 460 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 8 Group; 97 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; crash; crewing up; fitter airframe; flight engineer; flight mechanic; forced landing; ground crew; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mechanics airframe; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halton; RAF St Athan; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodbridge; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; York