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- Tags: incendiary device
Groundcrew, Lancaster and bomb
Page of 12 Operational Training Unit's F540
Air raid precautions album
Personal Report No 7 on Operational Flight
Lancaster Bombing Up
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Pilot sitting on a Cookie
40,000 firebombs hit Mannheim at once
Tags: bombing; Halifax; Hampden; incendiary device; Lancaster; Manchester; Stirling; Wellington
Loaded Bomb Bay
Armourers and Ground Crew
In photo 1 there are nine airmen behind a trolley of bombs. It is captioned 'L to R, - Wilson, Bowles, Phillips, Williams, Sheppard, Williams, Self, Osborne, our French Canadian.'
In photo 2 are five armourers…
Koblenz, flight engineer and Lancaster
Photo 1 is a target photograph of a night attack on Koblenz. All detail is obscured by target indicators and incendiaries.
Photo 2 is Terry's flight engineer seen from the bomb aimer's position.
Photo 3 is a…
Frankfurt and Calais
Photograph one, Frankfurt at night, is indecipherable. Captioned 'a brilliant spectacle of searchlights, flak sparks and puffs, glowing incendiaries and target indicators'.
Photograph two is taken…
Koblenz and Homberg
Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photograph of Homberg. The image is very clear with only a few explosions hiding the detail.
Bonn
Photo 3 is slightly later and shows large fires gaining control. Cologne is at the top left of…
Bochum and Gelsenkirchen
Photo 2 is a vertical aerial photography of Gelsenkirchen. Two bombs can be seen falling.
Lancaster maintenance
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Operational Record ledger
Tags: 156 Squadron; anti-Semitism; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); briefing; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; Mosquito; Pathfinders; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; target indicator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
101 squadron Lancaster dropping incendiaries
Twenty Lancasters
Air Borne Cigar
Tags: 101 Squadron; incendiary device; Lancaster
V Group News, February 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; civil defence; control tower; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; gremlin; ground personnel; H2S; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Scampton; RAF Wainfleet; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
V Group News, January 1944
Tags: 5 Group; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; flight engineer; Gee; ground personnel; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; RAF Coningsby; RAF Wainfleet; rivalry; sport; training; wireless operator
V Group News, September 1943
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 1661 HCU; 1668 HCU; 207 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 61 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; flight engineer; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); ground personnel; Heavy Conversion Unit; incendiary device; Lancaster; mine laying; navigator; pilot; propaganda; RAF Waddington; RAF Wainfleet; rivalry; take-off crash; training; wireless operator