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- Tags: RAF Yatesbury
"D" Squadron No.2 Air Crew Wing RAF Yatesbury
Tags: aircrew; RAF Yatesbury; training
19 Trainee Pilots
On the reverse 'Original. Official "Flight" photograph of trainee pilots at No 3 FTS…
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Yatesbury; training
Andy Andrews’ navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Arthur Atkinson’s observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); 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); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Coningsby; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF St Athan; RAF Stormy Down; RAF Syerston; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Arthur John Tindall’s navigator's, air bomber's and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 97 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Dominie; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Mona; RAF Upwood; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Arthur Woolf’s flying log book for navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s
Tags: 630 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Aubrey Read’s RAF observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; aircrew; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Defiant; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Metheringham; RAF Saltby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Aviation Memory
Tags: 102 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; arts and crafts; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); 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); Caterpillar Club; 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; operational training unit; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; 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
Bertie Foxlee’s flying log book for observer’s and air gunners
Tags: 455 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-24; Battle; bombing; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Catalina; Dominie; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Lincoln; Manchester; mine laying; operational training unit; Oxford; Proctor; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Lichfield; RAF Saltby; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tilstock; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Clifford Dayman flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners and flight engineers
Colin Cole's navigator's, air bomber's, air gunner's and flight engineer's flying log book
Tags: 617 Squadron; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Me 262; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Mona; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; submarine; Tiger force; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
Course photograph
Tags: RAF Yatesbury; training; wireless operator
Course photograph
Tags: RAF Yatesbury; training; wireless operator
Dennis Denton's log book
Tags: 139 Squadron; 2 Group; 21 Squadron; 226 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-25; Blenheim; C-47; Defiant; Dominie; operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Bicester; RAF Evanton; RAF Hartford Bridge; RAF Methwold; RAF Oulton; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Upwood; RAF Watton; RAF West Raynham; RAF Yatesbury; training; Ventura; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Derek Carrington's navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Detailing his flying training and operations flown. He was stationed at RAF Yatesbury (2 Radio School), RAF Evanton (8 AGS), RAF Wigtown…
Tags: 625 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cook’s tour; Dominie; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; operational training unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kelstern; RAF Scampton; RAF Wigtown; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
F W Honey’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book. One
George Holmes' navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 50 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Cook’s tour; Dominie; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Lincoln; mid-air collision; military service conditions; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; Proctor; RAF Bardney; RAF Coningsby; RAF Evanton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Silverstone; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Yatesbury; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Gordon Prescott’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Dominie; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; missing in action; operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Lindholme; RAF West Freugh; RAF Wickenby; RAF Yatesbury; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Group of Trainee Pilots and Line of eight Tiger Moths
On the reverse 'Trainee pilots at No 3 F.T.S. Yatesbury. Phillip Winter – fourth from right in back row, Arthur Woolnough on his…
Tags: aircrew; pilot; RAF Yatesbury; Tiger Moth; training
Harold C Rouse’s flying log book for observer’s and air gunner’s
Tags: 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bombing; crash; Dominie; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Coningsby; RAF Jurby; RAF Scampton; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
Ian Hay's Service Record
Interview with Arthur Atkinson
Interview with Arthur Sidney Woolf
Tags: 630 Squadron; aircrew; crewing up; Dominie; evading; fear; final resting place; Guinea Pig Club; Lancaster; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oxford; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Dumfries; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Wigsley; RAF Yatesbury; shot down; Stirling; Wellington; wireless operator
Interview with Bessie Thomas
Interview with Christopher George McVickers
Tags: 101 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; B-29; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); crash; forced landing; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Compton Bassett; RAF Hemswell; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RAF Yatesbury; Shackleton; Stirling; training; Wellington; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner