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- Tags: RAF Topcliffe
One Day in May on a Bomber Station
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; flight engineer; fuelling; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; mess; meteorological officer; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Dalton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Topcliffe; superstition; target indicator; wireless operator
Peter Webb’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Philip Anstey's personal record of operations
Tags: 77 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; observer; RAF Topcliffe
RAF Topcliffe Christmas dinner menu 1941
Tags: RAF Topcliffe
Reg Manning's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 10 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 1668 HCU; 462 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 614 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harrow; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Magister; Me 110; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; promotion; RAF Aqir; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Filton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Henlow; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Kasfereet; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Marham; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Medmenham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Pembrey; RAF Scampton; RAF Snaith; RAF St Eval; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Upwood; RAF Waddington; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Whitley
Richard Franklin’s navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 22 OTU; 24 OTU; 427 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Botha; C-47; Dominie; forced landing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Me 109; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Proctor; RAF Atherstone; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Leeming; RAF Madley; RAF Stoney Cross; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF Wigtown; RAF Wymeswold; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Robert Mitchell’s flying log book
Rochelle Burns
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Ronald Carpenter’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 10 Squadron; 100 Group; 102 Squadron; 12 OTU; 223 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Botha; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Martinet; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Cranwell; RAF Evanton; RAF Manby; RAF Melbourne; RAF Oulton; RAF Pocklington; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; Whitley
Terry Ford’s pilot’s flying log book. Two
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Topcliffe; Tiger Moth; training; York
The terrible three
W Sparkes’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 1659 HCU; 1668 HCU; 29 OTU; 297 Squadron; 431 Squadron; 85 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); C-47; Dominie; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; Halifax Mk 7; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Croft; RAF Dishforth; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Silloth; RAF St Athan; RAF Tholthorpe; RAF Topcliffe; training; Wellington
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Whitley and Crew
Photo 2 is eight airmen in flying kit standing in the snow at the nose of a Whitley, captioned 'Jim & Crew pre take off 1941'.
Tags: 77 Squadron; aircrew; pilot; RAF Topcliffe; Whitley
William Gowland Anderson airman's service and pay book
Tags: RAF Topcliffe