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- Tags: forced landing
Interview with Richard Franklin
Interview with Rusty Waughman. Two
Tags: 101 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 82 OTU; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); briefing; C-47; control tower; coping mechanism; crewing up; dispersal; entertainment; faith; fear; FIDO; forced landing; ground crew; ground personnel; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; heirloom; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; love and romance; Me 109; mid-air collision; military living conditions; military service conditions; nose art; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; perimeter track; pilot; promotion; RAF Abingdon; RAF Blyton; RAF Desborough; RAF hospital Matlock; RAF Ludford Magna; recruitment; sanitation; searchlight; Stearman; superstition; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Interview with Vic Farmer
Interview with William Holmes
Tags: 149 Squadron; 3 Group; aircrew; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; fear; forced landing; Guinea Pig Club; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; promotion; RAF Lakenheath; RAF Methwold; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Wratting Common; RCAF Bowden; RCAF Estevan; Resistance; Stearman; Stirling; training
Ivor Edwards observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book.
J R Davies’ Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Tags: 166 Squadron; 1662 HCU; 83 OTU; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); forced landing; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operational Training Unit; RAF Blyton; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Peplow; RAF Staverton; tactical support for Normandy troops; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
John Mitchell - list of operations 1939-1940
John Mitchell - notes for memoire
Tags: 207 Squadron; bombing; forced landing; mine laying
John Mitchell flying log book. Two
Tags: 1653 HCU; 1661 HCU; 19 OTU; 207 Squadron; 7 Group; aircrew; Anson; Cook’s tour; forced landing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lysander; Operational Training Unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Abingdon; RAF Kinloss; RAF Langar; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Spilsby; RAF Swinderby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Winthorpe; training; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
John Mitchell's flying log book. One
Tags: 19 OTU; 58 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; crash; forced landing; Operational Training Unit; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Driffield; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF West Freugh; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Keith Thiele - Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot's flying log book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1661 HCU; 22 OTU; 405 Squadron; 467 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; B-24; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); C-47; Dominie; Flying Training School; forced landing; Gneisenau; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Harvard; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hudson; Ju 52; Lancaster; Magister; Me 109; Me 262; mine laying; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Abingdon; RAF Bottesford; RAF Hendon; RAF Hullavington; RAF Lympne; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF Swanton Morley; RAF Tangmere; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Waddington; RAF Wellesbourne Mountford; Scharnhorst; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Typhoon; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Ventura; Wellington; Whitley
Lancaster after emergency landing
Tags: forced landing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; RAF Wick
Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
Lancastrian
Tags: forced landing; Lancastrian
Letter and transcript of telephone interview
Tags: 15 Squadron; 3 Group; 622 Squadron; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); control caravan; crewing up; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 110; military discipline; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); RAF Mildenhall; RAF St Athan; RAF Woodbridge; Scarecrow; searchlight; service vehicle; Stirling; superstition; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Window
Letter from Air Vice Marshal Davidson to Wing Commander W R John
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Tags: forced landing
Letter from Frank Claydon to his Mother
Tags: bombing; forced landing; RAF Kirmington
Letter from Frank Claydon to his Mother and Sister
Tags: aircrew; bombing; forced landing; RAF Kirmington
Letter from Hedley Madgett to his parents
Tags: aircrew; forced landing; pilot; training
Letter from Jimmy Doughty to his sister Winnie
Letter from Jimmy Doughty to his sister Winnie
Letter from John Matthews’ father to P Stevens
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Tags: forced landing