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- Tags: RAF Torquay
Geoff Packham's Record of Service
Tags: 1667 HCU; 18 OTU; 550 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Gunnery School; Flying Training School; heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster finishing school; operational training unit; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Brize Norton; RAF Cardington; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hurn; RAF Lindholme; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Sutton Bridge; RAF Torquay; RAF Wilmslow; RAF Worksop; training
Eric Horsham Flight Engineer
Eric Horsham - Memories
Torquay
Colour postcard, captioned 'Torquay Riviera', annotated 'Our Church for Sunday parades', 'Messing and billets in long white building'.
Postcard captioned 'The Harbour and Vane Hill',…
Tags: Initial Training Wing; RAF Torquay; training
Interview with Jack Harris. One
Tags: 30 OTU; 550 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Flying Training School; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Cranage; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Ingham; RAF North Killingholme; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Sandtoft; RAF South Cerney; RAF Torquay; recruitment; Tiger Moth; training; Ventura; Wellington
Alan Payne’s South African Air Force observers or air gunners log book
Tags: 1661 HCU; 1665 HCU; 17 OTU; 620 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 85 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Botha; C-47; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Aqir; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Saltby; RAF Silverstone; RAF Torquay; RAF Turweston; RAF Winthorpe; training; Wellington
If you can't take a joke...
Tags: 16 OTU; 1657 HCU; 622 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; briefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight mechanic; Flying Training School; Fw 190; Gee; ground crew; H2S; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 109; mechanics engine; military service conditions; operational training unit; Oxford; perception of bombing war; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Cranage; RAF Desborough; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hednesford; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Paignton; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Silloth; RAF Silverstone; RAF Stradishall; RAF Torquay; RAF Upper Heyford; sanitation; Stirling; strafing; training; Wellington; Whitley
Interview with Percival Trotman
Tags: 150 Squadron; 692 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; final resting place; Flying Training School; forced landing; Initial Training Wing; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cranwell; RAF Graveley; RAF Peplow; RAF Pershore; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Tilstock; RAF Torquay; RAF Towyn; recruitment; training; Wellington; Whitley
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Letter from Ian Wynn to his wife
Interview with Ken Marshall
Interview with Kenneth Killeen
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 83 OTU; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); forced landing; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 410; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Feltwell; RAF Peplow; RAF Torquay; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Interview with Doug Beasley
Tags: 1652 HCU; 76 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; crewing up; flight engineer; ground crew; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Halifax Mk 5; heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; Lancaster; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); operational training unit; perception of bombing war; propaganda; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Marston Moor; RAF St Athan; RAF Torquay; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Keith Dexter diary. One
Letter from Keith Dexter to Phyllis Dexter
Letter from Dec Dexter to Pyllis Dexter
Letter from Dec Dexter to Phyllis
Interview with Robert Barnes. One
Tags: 50 Squadron; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; bombing; civil defence; flight engineer; ground crew; ground personnel; Home Guard; Lancaster; memorial; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Torquay; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Thomas Peter Payne. Two
Tags: 15 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 26 OTU; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-17; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Flying Training School; heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; love and romance; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Feltwell; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Torquay; RAF Tuddenham; sanitation; training; Wellington; Window
Interview with Bill Lucas. Two
He left school at the age of 15 and went to work in an Insurance Company, before joining the Royal Air Force in 1939.
Bill was sent to 16 EFTS at Derby and then to an…
Tags: 139 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 19 OTU; 20 OTU; 9 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; Initial Training Wing; Mosquito; Oboe; operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Kinloss; RAF Torquay; RAF Upwood; RAF Wyton; sport; Stirling; training; Wellington
Interview with John Derek "Bill" Bailey. One
Tags: 103 Squadron; 166 Squadron; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; crewing up; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lysander; Master Bomber; mine laying; perception of bombing war; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Llandwrog; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Sandtoft; RAF Swinderby; RAF Torquay; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Leonard Dorricott's wartime letters to his parents
Harry Thomas Ansell's flying log book for flight engineers
Tags: 1654 HCU; 61 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); heavy conversion unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Stockport; RAF Syerston; RAF Torquay; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training