Browse Items (24 total)
- Tags: RAF Tempsford
Peter Bellingham’s observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 11 OTU; 138 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 17 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; animal; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing; Cook’s tour; FIDO; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Manby; RAF Oakley; RAF Silverstone; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Westcott; RAF Woodbridge; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Peter Bellingham
Tags: 11 OTU; 138 Squadron; 17 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; FIDO; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; RAF Millom; RAF Silverstone; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Woodbridge; Special Operations Executive; training
Interview with Bill Moore. Three
Please note: The veracity of this interview has been called into question. We advise that corroborative…
Tags: 138 Squadron; 161 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); briefing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); displaced person; fear; Gee; H2S; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; military service conditions; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tuddenham; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington
Interview with Richard Harrison
Interview with Bill Moore. Two
Tags: 138 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crewing up; displaced person; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; observer; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Benson; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tuddenham; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Interview with William James Stoneman
Tags: 138 Squadron; 1664 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; animal; Anson; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; final resting place; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; Magister; memorial; military service conditions; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Cardington; RAF Dishforth; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Tempsford; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with Phillip Winter
Interview with Joseph Wilson
Tags: 102 Squadron; 138 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 20 OTU; 624 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Absent Without Leave; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; memorial; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Pocklington; RAF Tempsford; Resistance; searchlight; Special Operations Executive; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Bill Moore. One
Tags: 138 Squadron; 161 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; aircrew; Anson; Catalina; flight engineer; Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Lysander; navigator; observer; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; RAF Benson; RAF Desborough; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tuddenham; reconnaissance photograph; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; Stirling; training
Aviation Memory
Tags: 102 Squadron; 14 OTU; 17 OTU; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Botha; Caterpillar Club; civil defence; crewing up; Dominie; FIDO; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Kirkham; 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; superstition; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Henry Moss
Tags: 138 Squadron; 1669 HCU; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lysander; Martinet; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Langar; RAF Pembrey; RAF Tempsford; Resistance; Special Operations Executive; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with Tony Coulson
Tags: 138 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; crash; Lancaster; love and romance; RAF Tempsford; Stirling
Interview with Frederick Arthur Bowman
Joseph Wilson's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1663 HCU; 20 OTU; 624 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Me 109; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Blida; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; RAF Tempsford; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); training; Wellington
George Alexander Mackie’s pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 11 OTU; 1651 HCU; 214 Squadron; aircrew; animal; arts and crafts; B-17; B-24; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); C-47; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; military living conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Downham Market; RAF Nutts Corner; RAF Oulton; RAF Prestwick; RAF Sculthorpe; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; training
Aircraft Recovered by No 9 Party, 54 MU
Tags: B-17; B-24; B-25; Battle; C-47; Halifax; Lancaster; Mosquito; P-51; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Bourn; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Desborough; RAF Duxford; RAF Felixstowe; RAF Gransden Lodge; RAF Graveley; RAF Henlow; RAF Hethel; RAF Kimbolton; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mepal; RAF Oakington; RAF Podington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Swannington; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Watton; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; Walrus
Air Gunner
At…
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 105 Squadron; 114 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 1665 HCU; 18 Squadron; 180 Squadron; 2 Group; 208 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 301 Squadron; 304 Squadron; 342 Squadron; 6 Group; 6 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; 90 Squadron; 97 Squadron; 99 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Boston; Caterpillar Club; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; evading; final resting place; Gee; Gneisenau; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Horsa; Hurricane; Ju 87; killed in action; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Me 109; Meteor; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bottesford; RAF Bourn; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Bramcote; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coltishall; RAF Drem; RAF Driffield; RAF Duxford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Fairford; RAF Finningley; RAF Great Massingham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kenley; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Leconfield; RAF Leuchars; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Newmarket; RAF Newton; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Penrhos; RAF Pershore; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Sleap; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tilstock; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Raynham; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; Resistance; Scharnhorst; Special Operations Executive; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; 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
109 Squadron Pathfinders fact sheet
Tags: 105 Squadron; 109 Squadron; 582 Squadron; 8 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Gneisenau; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Marham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; shot down; Victoria Cross; Wellington
Squadron Leader James Foulsham - Extracts from Service Record
Tags: 109 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 2 Group; 57 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 OTU; aircrew; Anson; B-17; Blenheim; Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Hudson; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Cranage; RAF Feltwell; RAF Little Staughton; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Marham; RAF Netheravon; RAF Newton; RAF Tempsford; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Watchfield; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Bob Smith's Memoirs Book 2
Covers his training.
Tags: 1653 HCU; 3 Group; 467 Squadron; 5 Group; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; crash; crewing up; flight engineer; Gee; Hampden; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mess; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Andover; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harrington; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Silloth; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wigtown; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Bob Smith's Memoirs Book 4
Tags: 149 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 617 Squadron; 622 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground personnel; H2S; Lancaster; love and romance; mess; mine laying; navigator; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Desborough; RAF Honington; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF West Freugh; Special Operations Executive; sport; V-2; V-weapon; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Bob Smith's Memoirs
Tags: 106 Squadron; 115 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 166 Squadron; 3 Group; 4 Group; 44 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 619 Squadron; 622 Squadron; 640 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 78 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; Boston; crash; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; flight engineer; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; mess; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Breighton; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Cranwell; RAF Desborough; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Feltwell; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harrington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leconfield; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Silloth; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waddington; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wigtown; RAF Witchford; Red Cross; sport; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 7; Stirling; training; V-1; Wellington; wireless operator
Bob Butler's Observer's and Air Gunner's Flying Log Book
Served at RAF Jurby, RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Newmarket, RAF Waterbeach, RAF…
Tags: 11 OTU; 218 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Battle; Blenheim; bombing; Hampden; Ju 88; Me 110; missing in action; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Jurby; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Newmarket; RAF Tempsford; RAF Waterbeach; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington