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- Tags: RAF Swinderby
G Cruickshank Memoir
Tags: 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; RAF Abingdon; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Evanton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
Geoff Paine's pilots flying log book
Geoff Paine's time in the RAF
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1660 HCU; 17 OTU; 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Botha; Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Gordon Cruickshank life on squadrons 1940-1944
Tags: 44 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 630 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Augsburg (17 April 1942); bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Pathfinders; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Westcott; training
Gordon Cruickshank's flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers. Two
Tags: 10 OTU; 100 Squadron; 11 OTU; 17 OTU; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; 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: 10 OTU; 100 Squadron; 11 OTU; 17 OTU; 199 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 7 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; 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
H K M Algar’s flying log book for aircrew other than pilots. One
Tags: 149 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 463 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-29; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Cook’s tour; Horsa; Lancaster; Lincoln; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Marham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Handley Page Hampden No 50 Squadron Lindholme and Swinderby
Top - pilot wearing heavy jacket and flying helmet in the opened cockpit of a Hampden. Caption 'Sergeant Pilot'.
Middle - two aircrew and two ground crew…
Harold Southgate and crew
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Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Swinderby
Ian Archer Wynn diary
Interview with Alan Morgan
Interview with Arthur Spencer
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; crewing up; ground crew; Master Bomber; military ethos; mine laying; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Resistance; target indicator; training; Ventura; Wellington; Window
Interview with Basil Ambrose
Tags: 467 Squadron; 617 Squadron; aerial photograph; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Beaufighter; bombing; flight engineer; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; target photograph; training
Interview with Betty May Pearson
Interview with Bill Spence
Tags: 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); coping mechanism; crash; crewing up; ethnic or religious minorities; fear; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; operational training unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bowden; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Bob Leedham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 86 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Halton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF St Athan; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wratting Common; Scharnhorst; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; training; Window
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three
Tags: 619 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-Semitism; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; crewing up; Dulag Luft; escaping; final resting place; Lancaster; perception of bombing war; prisoner of war; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; shot down; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; Wellington
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Two
Interview with Cyril Bristow Adams
Interview with Freda Fairweather
Interview with Geoff Paine
Tags: 100 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cornell; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 - 2022); Harvard; incendiary device; Oxford; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021); RAF Bentley Priory; RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Grimsby; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lyneham; RAF Oakington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Valley; RAF West Kirby; recruitment; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York
Interview with Geoffrey Charles Spencer
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; bombing; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crash; demobilisation; entertainment; FIDO; fitter engine; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; love and romance; RAF Cardington; RAF Cosford; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Swinderby; Spitfire; Stirling; training; York