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- Tags: RAF Wickenby
Teddy's Career in the RAFVR 9th September 1939 - 11th October 1941
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aerial photograph; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Battle; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; crewing up; Defiant; ditching; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; meteorological officer; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; propaganda; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Kinloss; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; recruitment; sport; Stirling; take-off crash; training; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Service history of Sergeant Alfred Edward "Teddy" Cosgrove
Tags: 1 Group; 11 OTU; 12 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; crash; final resting place; ground personnel; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; love and romance; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; observer; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Binbrook; RAF Evanton; RAF Odiham; RAF Padgate; RAF Ringway; RAF Wickenby; sport; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Telegram to William Norman's sister
Letter to Mrs Brennan from Wing Commander commanding 626 Squadron
William Norman's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Anson; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Blyton; RAF Bramcote; RAF Hemswell; RAF Wickenby; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
Table of 626 Squadron's operations mid 1944
Tags: 626 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Wickenby; tactical support for Normandy troops
Eric Foinette's memoir
Ken Calton’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 156 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 242 Squadron; 3 Group; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; 635 Squadron; 7 Squadron; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lancastrian; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; RAF Blyton; RAF Downham Market; RAF Feltwell; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Graveley; RAF Oakington; RAF Pembrey; RAF Stradishall; RAF Warboys; RAF Wickenby; RAF Witchford; training; York
Reminiscence of a Flight Engineer's Night to Remember 55 Years Ago
William Baker recommendation for award of Distinguished Flying Cross
W B Baker’s observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; forced landing; killed in action; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Stormy Down; RAF Wickenby; training; Whitley
Aircrew
Tags: 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; Lancaster; pilot; RAF Wickenby; Wellington
Aircrew
Middle - sixteen aircrew, all wearing battledress, some with discernible observers or navigator's brevet standing…
Tags: 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; navigator; pilot; RAF Wickenby
Service history
Tags: 115 Squadron; 1651 HCU; 1662 HCU; 28 OTU; 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Bridlington; RAF East Wretham; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wittering; RAF Wymeswold; Stirling; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 18 OTU; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evading; FIDO; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Manston; RAF Methwold; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Maurice Snowball's Royal Air Force Flying Log Book for Navigator’s, Air Bomber’s, Air Gunner’s and Flight Engineers
Tags: 12 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 550 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); RAF Blyton; RAF North Killingholme; RAF St Athan; RAF Wickenby; training
Wickenby Taken from Rear Turret
Tags: Lancaster; RAF Wickenby
Herbert Davy's log book
Tags: 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morpeth; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wymeswold; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington
General Memories
He describes training in London, Bridlington, Morpeth and Wymeswold. Later training as a crew was at Castle Donington, Lindholme and Hemswell. He describes in detail his crew, aircraft and operations.…
Tags: 12 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; escaping; flight engineer; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Martinet; Me 262; military ethos; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridlington; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirkham; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morpeth; RAF Tilstock; RAF Wickenby; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wymeswold; superstition; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Letter to Mrs JT Jones from 626 Squadron
Letter from JT Jones to his Wife
This is the last letter he sent home. It arrived after the news of his death.
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.
Tags: aircrew; RAF Wickenby
Memorials at Lincolnshire Airfields
#1 is 617 squadron memorial at RAF Woodhall Spa.
#2 is 44 squadron memorial at RAF Waddington.
#3 and 4 is a plaque at 'The Wild Life' pub at Skellingthorpe.
#5 is a memorial at East Kirkby.
#6 is a close up of the…
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 630 Squadron; 9 Squadron; final resting place; memorial; RAF Bardney; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Honington; RAF Kirmington; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; RAF Woodhall Spa
Time out for war
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 1653 HCU; 1656 HCU; 3 Group; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 84 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Heavy Conversion Unit; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Desborough; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Methwold; RAF Sturgate; RAF Torquay; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington