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- Tags: air sea rescue
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
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
Harry William Wickham
Tags: 102 Squadron; 462 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; B-17; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Flying Training School; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; mine laying; missing in action; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Finningley; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Torquay; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
Four airmen and a Lancaster
Tags: 15 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; Lancaster; RAF Wyton
Flying Control Logbook
Tags: air sea rescue; RAF Tholthorpe
Flying Control Log Book
29th August to 6th October 1943 (71 pages)
Movements of aircraft at Tholthorpe.
Tags: air sea rescue; RAF Tholthorpe
Ernest Smith's pilot's flying log book. Two
Tags: 100 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 144 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1662 HCU; 18 OTU; 30 OTU; 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 Upper Heyford; RAF Wickenby; training; Wellington
D E Owen’s pilots flying log book. One
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 617 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; Distinguished Service Order; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; mine laying; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Scampton; RAF Stradishall; Stirling; training
D E Owen’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers. Two
Tags: 149 Squadron; 1657 HCU; 1668 HCU; 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; Distinguished Service Order; flight engineer; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; RAF Balderton; RAF Bardney; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Mildenhall; RAF Scampton; RAF Stradishall; RAF Syerston; RAF Waddington; Stirling; training
Cyril Charles Goff's pilot’s flying log book. One
Tags: 100 Squadron; 1667 HCU; 81 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; air sea rescue; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); Flying Training School; 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 Newton; RAF Shawbury; RAF Sleap; RAF Tilstock; Stearman; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley
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
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
A speck of history from long ago and far away
Tags: air sea rescue; B-24; ditching; Ju 88; shot down
A K Witty’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 12 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; 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 Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; Gee; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); operational training unit; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Sturgate; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington