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- Tags: Tallboy
History of 106 Squadron
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Battle; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; FIDO; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hampden; Lancaster; Manchester; mine laying; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Pathfinders; RAF Abingdon; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Finningley; RAF Metheringham; RAF Syerston; Tallboy; target indicator; V-weapon
Bombing of the Tirpitz
Wizernes, Edward King's 21st operation of his tour
Newspaper cutting - Arnsberg here I come
Tags: 617 Squadron; bombing; Grand Slam; Lancaster; Tallboy
Mosquito landing and target photographs
Bottom - side by side target photographs of port area showing aiming…
Nienburg Bridge after attack by 617 Sqn with Tallboys and Grand Slams
Day Bombers Follow 1000-plane Assault
On the reverse are adverts.
The Horry Brothers Memoir
There is a short memoir about Frank and a longer memoir about Freddie.
There are three stories about different operations.
Rear view - Ralph Briars memoir
Tags: 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); 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 Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); control caravan; control tower; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Me 109; mid-air collision; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); operational training unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Husbands Bosworth; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; service vehicle; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; V-weapon; Wellington; Window
Crew reunion
Tags: aircrew; Grand Slam; Lancaster; RAF Scampton; Tallboy
A bomber pilot’s journey through WWII
Tags: 196 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); 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 Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Boston; C-47; Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; final resting place; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Grand Slam; grief; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Meteor; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; operational training unit; Oxford; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; promotion; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranage; RAF Cranwell; RAF Driffield; RAF Leconfield; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upavon; RAF Woodhall Spa; Spitfire; Stirling; Tallboy; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington
V Group News, January 1945
V Group News, December 1944
V Group News, November 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Creil/St Leu d’Esserent V-1 storage areas (4/5 July 1944); bombing of the Mimoyecques V-3 site (6 July 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; H2S; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); pilot; radar; rivalry; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
V Group News, October 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; H2S; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; pilot; radar; rivalry; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
V Group News, September 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; flight engineer; fuelling; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); H2S; Lancaster; Master Bomber; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; Pathfinders; petrol bowser; pilot; radar; rivalry; service vehicle; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; wireless operator
Lancaster gate guard with Vulcan overflight
Tags: Grand Slam; Lancaster; RAF Scampton; Tallboy
Letter to Leonard Cheshire from Barnes Wallis
Tallboy bomb and crane
Tags: bomb dump; bomb trolley; bombing; service vehicle; Tallboy; tractor