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- Tags: Tiger force
106 Squadron - happy days and others
Me - William Roy Peter Perry DFC
Tags: 106 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; aircrew; Cook’s tour; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Manchester; Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Ansty; RAF Balderton; RAF Metheringham; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Ossington; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
William Ray Peter Perry DFC - biography
Air Gunner
At…
Tags: 1 Group; 100 Group; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 105 Squadron; 114 Squadron; 139 Squadron; 141 Squadron; 148 Squadron; 149 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 18 Squadron; 180 Squadron; 2 Group; 208 Squadron; 214 Squadron; 239 Squadron; 3 Group; 301 Squadron; 304 Squadron; 342 Squadron; 6 Group; 6 Squadron; 620 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; 90 Squadron; 97 Squadron; 99 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; B-17; B-24; B-25; bale out; Beaufighter; Blenheim; bombing; Boston; Caterpillar Club; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; evading; Gee; Gneisenau; H2S; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Horsa; Hurricane; Ju 87; killed in action; Lancaster; Lysander; Manchester; Me 109; Meteor; mid-air collision; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Oboe; operational training unit; P-51; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; propaganda; radar; RAF Bicester; RAF Biggin Hill; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Bottesford; RAF Bourn; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Bramcote; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coltishall; RAF Drem; RAF Driffield; RAF Duxford; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Evanton; RAF Fairford; RAF Finningley; RAF Great Massingham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Harwell; RAF Hendon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Honington; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Kenley; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Leconfield; RAF Leuchars; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Newmarket; RAF Newton; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Pershore; RAF Ridgewell; RAF Shepherds Grove; RAF Sleap; RAF Stradishall; RAF Tangmere; RAF Tempsford; RAF Tilstock; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Raynham; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wratting Common; RAF Wyton; Resistance; Scharnhorst; Special Operations Executive; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
W J Martin's flying log book
Tags: 5 Group; 57 Squadron; aircrew; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Flying Cross; flight engineer; Fw 190; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Cottesmore; RAF East Kirkby; RAF St Athan; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Woolfox Lodge; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger force; V-1; V-2
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
Tiger Force July 1945
Tags: 44 Squadron; animal; Lancaster; RAF Spilsby; Tiger force
Conversion of 600 aircraft for Tiger Force
Tags: Tiger force
Interview with Maurice Roberts
V Group News, July 1945
Just Another Tailend Charlie
The Earliest Years.
Born in Barnoldswick, then in Yorkshire, now in Lancashire in 1922. His father ran a wireless business until 1926. He describes his years at schools and a move to…
Tags: 109 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 227 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Albemarle; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); C-47; Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; Halifax; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Hudson; Hurricane; Ju 87; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; mess; military discipline; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Bawtry; RAF Catfoss; RAF Eastleigh; RAF Farnborough; RAF Finningley; RAF Graveley; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Milltown; RAF Norton; RAF Scampton; RAF Seighford; RAF Strubby; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Spitfire; sport; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
35 Squadron Lancasters
Goodwill visit to United States
Article states that 16 Lancasters of 35 Pathfinder Squadron will arrive 27 July 1946 on three day visit to Denver area. They arrived in the United States at Mitchel Field New…
Famed RAF Squadron to visit Lowry
Memoir by Arthur Hollis
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; Distinguished Flying Cross; Harvard; Home Guard; Lancaster; love and romance; military living conditions; military service conditions; Oxford; pilot; RAF Little Rissington; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Turweston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Westcott; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Thanksgiving address for the life of Arthur Norman Hollis OBE, DFC
History of 115 (B) Squadron
Interview with Leonard Ralph Tyrell
Tags: 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; crewing up; demobilisation; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); faith; fear; ground crew; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; memorial; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Silverstone; RAF Spilsby; RAF Syerston; Stirling; superstition; Tiger force; training; Wellington
Interview with Francis Neville Selwood
Interview with John Plendeleith
Interview with Taff Owen
Tags: 153 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; demobilisation; Dominie; Gee; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Master Bomber; military living conditions; navigator; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Proctor; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Scampton; RAF West Freugh; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; submarine; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator / air gunner
Interview with John Alan Ottewell
Interview with Ken Oatley
Tags: 106 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Home Guard; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; Mosquito; navigator; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Manston; RAF Marham; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Interview with Peter Morris
Tags: 106 Squadron; 120 Squadron; 42 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing up; ground personnel; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lincoln; navigator; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wyton; Shackleton; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon
Interview with Bob Leedham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 463 Squadron; 5 Group; 57 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 86 Squadron; 90 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Alconbury; RAF Halton; RAF Ridgewell; RAF St Athan; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Swinderby; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Wratting Common; Scharnhorst; Stirling; Sunderland; Tiger force; training; Window