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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
Ron Huntley and RAF High Speed Launch 2641
Tags: air sea rescue; ditching; Sunderland
V Group News, July 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; 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); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; pilot; radar; rivalry; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; wireless operator
V Group News, August 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; pilot; radar; rivalry; sport; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; 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
Large group of airmen and an Air Sea Rescue Lancaster
Page 15 of D C Bradbury Scrapbook
Photo 2 - six airmen in tropical kit at the tail of a Lancaster.
Photos 3,4,5,6 are air-to-air shots of a Lancaster dropping…
Tags: air sea rescue; aircrew; Lancaster
V Group News, July 1945
Four airmen and a Lancaster
Tags: 15 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Wyton
Flying Control Log Book
29th August to 6th October 1943 (71 pages)
Movements of aircraft at Tholthorpe.
Tags: air sea rescue; RAF Tholthorpe
Flying Control Logbook
Tags: air sea rescue; RAF Tholthorpe
Vickers Viking and RAF and air sea rescue launch
Tags: air sea rescue
Rescue painting
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
Airmen and newspaper cutting
Bottom left - three-quarter length image of an airman wearing tunic and smoking a cigarette. Trees in…
Tags: air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; bombing; ditching; Halifax; pilot; RAF Riccall; Walrus; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force