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- Tags: RAF Swinderby
Interview with Ron Hemsworth
Interview with Basil Ambrose
Leonard Green’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 50 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Dominie; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Proctor; RAF Bitteswell; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Coningsby; RAF Manby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigtown; Wellington; wireless operator
New museum in spotlight
Article 2 is a wartime memoir by Ivor Cole, 103 Squadron.
Article 3 describes some of the exhibits at the new Hendon museum.
Interview with Gordon Catling
Interview with Charles Henry Clarke. Three.
Interview with George Eric Cromarty
Interview with George Crooks
Interview with Arthur Spencer
Roy Briggs' flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Tags: 138 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 576 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Dominie; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Balderton; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Catterick; RAF Cranwell; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Graveley; RAF Hixon; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Madley; RAF Seighford; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator
50 Squadron [concept]
300 Squadron [concept]
301 Squadron [concept]
Tags: 301 Squadron; Battle; Halifax; RAF Bramcote; RAF Hemswell; RAF Swinderby; Wellington
Stephen Dawson's pilot's flying logbook. One
Stephen Dawson's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; B-24; B-25; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Boston; Defiant; Halifax; Hampden; Harvard; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Mosquito; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; 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…
John Chatterton's pilot's flying logbook
Leonard Dorricott's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 460 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 61 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Commodore; Cook’s tour; Halifax; Harrow; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bobbington; RAF Bottesford; RAF Breighton; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Swinderby; RAF Whitchurch; training; Whitley
Ernie Twells’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book.
Ernie Twells' Obituary and letter from the King
A letter from the King awarding Ernie Twells his Distinguished Flying Cross.
Interview with Jamie Barr
Interview with John Cuthbert
Tags: 189 Squadron; 49 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; radar; RAF Bardney; RAF Fulbeck; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with John Harrison
Interview with Walter Morris
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; home front; Lancaster; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF East Kirkby; RAF Grafton Underwood; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Swinderby; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Geoff Paine
Tags: 100 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Cornell; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); Harvard; Oxford; pilot; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-); RAF Bircham Newton; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hendon; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Lyneham; RAF Oakington; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Valley; RAF Waltham; RAF West Kirby; recruitment; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; York