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- Tags: heavy conversion unit
Don Cameron’s Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flying log book. Two
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Cook’s tour; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Full Sutton; RAF Lindholme; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Oakington; RAF Silverstone; RAF Snaith; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training; Wellington; York
John A Kell’s Royal Canadian Air Force flying log book for pilots
Tags: 101 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Blyton; RAF Dallachy; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Shawbury; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
World War II & Flying Memoirs
Tags: 115 Squadron; aircrew; bomb struck; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; Gee; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lancaster Mk 2; love and romance; Me 110; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Dishforth; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Silverstone; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wing; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Stearman; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Window; York
John Beisly memoir
Gordon Mills observer's and air gunner's log book
Tags: 149 Squadron; 218 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; crash; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Lincoln; Martinet; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Binbrook; RAF Feltwell; RAF Hemswell; RAF Leconfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Mepal; RAF Methwold; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Stradishall; RAF Waddington; RAF Wratting Common; Stirling; training; Wellington
R S Routledge’s navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bombing; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Manby; RAF Morpeth; RAF Ossington; RAF Stradishall; RAF Syerston; Stirling; training; Wellington
D A Robinson’s pilot’s flying log book
Tags: 158 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Lissett; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Shawbury; RAF Stradishall; RAF Wing; RAF Wymeswold; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
J D Harris’s observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); C-47; H2S; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Manchester; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); operational training unit; Oxford; RAF Coningsby; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Oakley; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; Stirling; training; Wellington
Colin Wallace's Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot's flying log book
Tags: 467 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; forced landing; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; Me 109; mine laying; operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Bottesford; RAF Kinloss; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Wigsley; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window
My Time in the Royal Air Force 1942-1955
Tags: 207 Squadron; 3 Group; 514 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); Cornell; crewing up; Dominie; flight engineer; hangar; Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lincoln; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; Oxford; pilot; promotion; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Bottesford; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Leconfield; RAF Marham; RAF Methwold; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Oakington; RAF Spilsby; RAF Sywell; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Westcott; recruitment; Spitfire; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Max Spence's flying log book
Frank Fetich's Royal Canadian Air Force pilot’s flying log book for aircrew other than pilot
Les Jackson’s flying log book for navigators, air bombers, air gunners, flight engineers
Tags: 103 Squadron; 57 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; Lancaster; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); operational training unit; RAF Bishops Court; RAF Blyton; RAF Elsham Wolds; RAF Lichfield; RAF Lindholme; RAF Peplow; RAF Scampton; training; Wellington
John Mitchell flying logbook. Two
Tags: 207 Squadron; 7 Group; Anson; Cook’s tour; forced landing; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 3; Lysander; operational training unit; pilot; Proctor; RAF Kinloss; RAF Langar; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Spilsby; RAF Ternhill; RAF Winthorpe; Whitley; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner
My experience as a prisoner of war in Germany 1943 - 1945
Tags: 428 Squadron; 6 Group; aircrew; bale out; bombing; C-47; crewing up; Dulag Luft; entertainment; escaping; flight engineer; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Halifax Mk 5; heavy conversion unit; killed in action; navigator; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Middleton St George; Red Cross; shot down; sport; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 3; the long march; training
Daniel Phillips's observer's and air gunner's flying logbook
Ian Grant Henderson’s navigator’s flying log book
J F Latimer’s Royal Canadian Air Force Flying Log Book for Aircrew other than Pilot
Tags: 102 Squadron; 462 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Driffield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Mona; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; RAF Pocklington; RCAF Fingal; training; Wellington
Frank Horry's Record of Service
Ralph Freeman's Royal Canadian Air Force pilot’s log book
Detailing his flying training and operations flown as pilot. He was stationed at RAF Cambridge (22 EFTS), RCAF Assiniboin (34 EFTS), RCAF Swift Current (39 SFTS),…
Rear view - Ralph Briars memoir
Tags: 49 Squadron; 617 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); operational training unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Market Harborough; RAF Winthorpe; Tallboy; training; V-weapon; Wellington
George Alexander Mackie’s pilots flying log book. One
Planning Chart for Cross-Country from Chedburgh
Terry Ford and Harry
Photo 1 is a head and shoulders image of Terry Ford at the controls of a Stirling, captioned 'Myself landing a Stirling III at Con unit, Chedburgh'.
Photo 2 is Harry in the rear turret of a Stirling, captioned 'Harry…
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; heavy conversion unit; pilot; RAF Chedburgh; Stirling