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- Tags: air sea rescue
Ron Huntley and RAF High Speed Launch 2641
Tags: air sea rescue; ditching; Sunderland
High speed launch 2641
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Tags: air sea rescue
High speed launch 2641
This item was provided, in digital form, by a third-party organisation which used technical specifications and operational protocols that may differ from those used by the IBCC Digital Archive.
Tags: air sea rescue
A speck of history from long ago and far away
Tags: air sea rescue; B-24; ditching; Ju 88; shot down
V Group News, June 1944
Tags: 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 627 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bomb dump; bombing; 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 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); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; radar; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; rivalry; service vehicle; tactical support for Normandy troops; tractor; training; wireless operator
V Group News, May 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; flight engineer; ground personnel; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; radar; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; rivalry; sport; Stirling; training; wireless operator
V Group News, April 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of Toulouse (5/6 April 1944); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; radar; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Waddington; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
V Group News, March 1944
Tags: 5 Group; Absent Without Leave; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; FIDO; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Scampton; RAF Waddington; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
V Group News, February 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; civil defence; control tower; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; H2S; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Scampton; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
V Group News, January 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Coningsby; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
Ray Charlton Memoir
Cyril Charles Goff's pilot’s flying log book. One
Tags: 100 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Halifax; Halifax Mk 5; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; propaganda; RAF Grimsby; RAF Lindholme; RAF Tilstock; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Ernest Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Hampden; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; mine laying; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Finningley; RAF Grimsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hixon; RAF Wickenby; training; Wellington
Interview with John Harry Waye
Tags: air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-24; training
Interview with Anthony Tompson
Tags: 162 Squadron; 8 Group; 90 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; military ethos; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Tuddenham; RAF Wyton; Resistance; Stirling; take-off crash; Tiger Moth; training
Interview with Maurice Stoneman
Tags: 57 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; crash; ditching; flight engineer; Gneisenau; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mess; military ethos; military service conditions; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); prisoner of war; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Swinderby; training
Interview with Rex Statham
Tags: 10 Squadron; 158 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); crash; demobilisation; fear; flight engineer; flight mechanic; fuelling; ground crew; ground personnel; Halifax; mid-air collision; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Lissett; RAF Melbourne; RAF Woodbridge; Sunderland; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Interview with Frank Charles Standen
Tags: air sea rescue; crash; ground personnel; Stirling
Interview with Harry Rossiter
Tags: 115 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Defiant; Dominie; entertainment; fear; Gee; Lancaster; memorial; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); perception of bombing war; Proctor; RAF Barrow in Furness; RAF Madley; RAF Witchford; RAF Yatesbury; training; Window; wireless operator
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
Cadet 1935-1945 Peter D Stevenson
Tags: 106 Squadron; 207 Squadron; 5 Group; air sea rescue; animal; Blenheim; bombing; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); civil defence; crash; entertainment; ground personnel; home front; Lancaster; Manchester; military service conditions; RAF Bottesford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Syerston; sanitation; station headquarters; training; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force