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- Tags: bale out
Fred Weston's Caterpillar Club Card
Tags: aircrew; bale out; Caterpillar Club
Letter to Charles Hamilton's Father
Letter to Charles Hamilton's Mother
Tags: 85 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; missing in action; pilot; prisoner of war
Letter to Charles Hamilton's Mother
Tags: aircrew; bale out; Mosquito; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; shot down
Caterpillar Club letter to Jack Penswick
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Tags: aircrew; bale out; Caterpillar Club; RAF Syerston
Jack Penswick’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1660 HCU; 29 OTU; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; bale out; bombing; Botha; Grand Slam; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; Martinet; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Morpeth; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Scampton; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tallboy; Tirpitz; training; Wellington
VC's smile made men brave
Heroes of the Air War (No. 39) Captain Swales
Robert Jubb - Royal Australian Air Force flying log book
Tags: 1658 HCU; 21 OTU; 462 Squadron; 76 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); C-47; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Me 110; Me 262; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Driffield; RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Riccall; Stalag Luft 7; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tiger Moth; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator
Jas Flannigan - Observer's and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 11 OTU; 215 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 77 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bale out; crash; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Harrow; killed in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Bassingbourn; RAF Evanton; RAF Jurby; RAF Middleton St George; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
For Gallantry - John Goldby DFC
Letter to Keith Thiele's father from officer commanding 122 Wing
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Postcards from John Goldby to his parents
Tags: bale out; Dulag Luft; prisoner of war
John Louis Goldby Biography
Tags: 10 OTU; 38 Squadron; 78 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Dulag Luft; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Hampden; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; RAF Cosford; RAF Ford; RAF Henlow; RAF Jurby; RAF Kenley; RAF Kinloss; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Manby; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Odiham; RAF Riccall; RAF Rufforth; RAF St Eval; RAF St Mawgan; RAF Stanton Harcourt; RAF Swinderby; RAF Topcliffe; Shackleton; Stalag Luft 1; training; Wellington; Whitley
Gallant Young Faversham Airman
Sandy Christison's Log Book
Tags: 1658 HCU; 171 Squadron; 76 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); C-47; flight engineer; forced landing; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor; RAF North Creake; RAF Riccall; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; Window
Account Dictated by Flight Engineer A Christison
Tags: 171 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; C-47; flight engineer; Halifax; RAF North Creake
Life as a prisoner of war
Shot down and taken prisoner
Sergeant George B Thomson - Lancaster shot down
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 110; prisoner of war; shot down