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No 166 Squadron history
Page one begins with the reformation of the squadron in 1936 and gives details of the aircraft operated, the stations flown from and the roles the squadron played in training and operations.…
Tags: 10 OTU; 103 Squadron; 142 Squadron; 150 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; crash; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kirmington; RAF North Killingholme; RAF Scampton; take-off crash; training; Wellington; Whitley
Operational Notes from 12 Squadron
One Day in May on a Bomber Station
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; flight engineer; fuelling; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; mess; meteorological officer; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Dalton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Topcliffe; superstition; target indicator; wireless operator
John Martin's memoir
Tags: 166 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-29; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; demobilisation; Do 217; Dulag Luft; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Halifax; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Lancaster; Lancastrian; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; radar; RAF Cosford; RAF Cranwell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Wing; Red Cross; Resistance; sport; Stalag Luft 4; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Eric Foinette's memoir
F27 AA Fire During Raid on Mannheim. Dec 16 40
16/17th June - Target Essen
19/20th May 1942 Target Mannheim
JF Neilson's memoir
He joined the Local Defence Volunteers at first then realised he did not want to become infantry. He did mount road blocks and fire watches. He applied to join the RAF and was accepted. Training was at Blackpool,…
Tags: 4 Group; 640 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); C-47; civil defence; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; Flying Training School; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bicester; RAF Church Fenton; RAF Cosford; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Riccall; RCAF Rivers; Red Cross; Spitfire; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
50 Squadron losses April - June 1942
1st Allied Airplane Crashed in Haute-Marne, Bomber Halifax Mk II DT515
Tags: 207 Squadron; 4 Group; 76 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); crash; escaping; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Linton on Ouse; Resistance; wireless operator
List of operations
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; mine laying; shot down; Wellington
Bremerhaven
'2922 SKELL. 18/19.9.44// NT. 8" 15000…
Route map - Homberg
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; navigator
Bomber Command intelligence narrative of operations no 747
No 100 (S.D.) Group - intelligence raid analysis
Newspaper cuttings concerning Robert Palmers award of Victoria Cross
Newspaper cuttings concerning Robert Palmers Victoria Cross final operation
Newspaper cuttings - secret out on only radar V.C and followed father won V.C.
Only "radar" V.C.
Tags: 109 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Oboe; shot down; Victoria Cross
Munich Plastered Again: Terrific 25-Minute Blitz
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; bombing; Lancaster; Me 110; propaganda
Lane of Flares Over the Rhine
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Ju 88; Lancaster; navigator; propaganda; Stirling
Nuremburg Was 'Laid Flat'
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Halifax; Hampden; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; navigator; propaganda; Stirling
Hamburg New Blow
Tags: aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Halifax; incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; pilot; propaganda