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No 2 Squadron mobile servicing squadron
Enschede 1945
The second showing an industrial steam engine, captioned '?'.
The third has an airforce lorry with three servicemen, captioned 'Grub wagon'. Fourth has a…
Aircraft
Bottom - photograph - view from above of a Lancaster with Spitfire and Hurricane on either wing over sea. Captioned 'Memorial in Flight,…
Book reviews and cartoon
The second a cartoon.
The third dated October 17th 1957 is a book review…
Arthur at work
The third shows a servicing team standing in front of a Spitfire parked on the…
Tags: ground crew; ground personnel; Spitfire
Air Gunner
At…
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Samuel Guyan comments and memoirs
He sings several songs including 'Ops on a Stirling' to the tune of Waltzing Matilda,…
Ivor Cole's Wireless Course Notes
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; B-17; B-24; bombing; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 262; Mosquito; P-51; Spitfire; target indicator; training; wireless operator
Interview with Günther Rall
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; 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; V-1; V-2; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Dennis Terry Biography
A…
Villers Bocage, Edward King's 19th operation of his tour
Notes from Squadron and station operational records
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 51 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); crash; ditching; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; navigator; pilot; RAF Graveley; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; Spitfire; Typhoon; Walrus; wireless operator
Lecture - "PRESS ON"
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); ditching; Fw 190; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; shot down; Spitfire; Typhoon; Walrus; Whitley
Tadeusz Wier No 41 Group - personal flying record
Tags: aircrew; Anson; C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Harvard; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Mosquito; Oxford; pilot; Proctor; RAF Hawarden; Shackleton; Spitfire; Sunderland; Tiger Moth; Wellington; York
Tadeusz Wier flying log book. One
Tags: 300 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Beaufighter; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Dominie; Halifax; Harvard; Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Magister; Martinet; Meteor; Mosquito; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; pilot; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Blyton; RAF Cardington; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Hawarden; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hullavington; RAF Newton; RAF Shawbury; Shackleton; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Eric Parker's Biography
Tags: 12 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 15 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 47 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-29; Blenheim; bomb aimer; C-47; Cornell; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; entertainment; flight engineer; ground personnel; hangar; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; love and romance; Me 109; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Dishforth; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Lyneham; RAF Marham; RAF Oakington; RAF Shawbury; RAF Snaith; RAF Sywell; RAF Upwood; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; York
My War
Tags: Hurricane; RAF Biggin Hill; Spitfire; Wellington
My recollections of the War
Parade, Royal Observer Corps and Spitfires
Right - troops on parade with standard in front.
Bottom left - two members of Royal Observer Corps standing leaning on the propeller of a twin engine aircraft.
Bottom middle…
Tags: Royal Observer Corps; Spitfire
Spitfire
Tags: Spitfire