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Douglas Ross Arrowsmith’s pilots flying log book
Tags: 1656 HCU; 21 OTU; 27 OTU; 460 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Flying Training School; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Moreton in the Marsh; Tiger Moth; training
Frank Dennis' memoir
Tags: 1659 HCU; 419 Squadron; 427 Squadron; 6 Group; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; C-47; crash; crewing up; demobilisation; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; evading; firefighting; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 163; military discipline; military living conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; RAF Bridlington; RAF Cardington; RAF Leeming; RAF Little Snoring; RAF Manston; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Stradishall; RAF Topcliffe; recruitment; Stirling; training; V-1; V-weapon; Window; wireless operator
Archibald Steele’s Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Cook’s tour; flight engineer; Flying Training School; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Magister; Operation Exodus (1945); Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Metheringham; RAF Spitalgate; RAF St Athan; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RAF woodley; RCAF Brandon; RCAF Penhold; RCAF Virden; Tiger Moth; training
Harry Brabin memoir
He sailed on the SS Johan Van Barneve to San Francisco and…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1652 HCU; 27 OTU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; air sea rescue; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; arts and crafts; bomb aimer; bomb struck; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Helgoland (18 April 1945); bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); briefing; crewing up; debriefing; demobilisation; entertainment; faith; fear; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Gee; gremlin; ground crew; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; love and romance; Master Bomber; McIndoe, Archibald (1900-1960); Me 109; Me 262; Me 410; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; Operational Training Unit; P-51; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; physical training; pilot; prisoner of war; promotion; propaganda; radar; RAF Gamston; RAF Lichfield; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Mossbank; recruitment; Schräge Musik; searchlight; Spitfire; sport; tactical support for Normandy troops; Tallboy; target indicator; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Propeller overspeeding
Tags: aircrew; flight engineer; Halifax; pilot; training
Letter to DJH Maltby to attend an Investiture
Telegram to DJH Maltby
DJH Maltby Officer's service record
Churchill's funeral
Men and missiles
Tags: aircrew; Mosquito; pilot; RAF Farnborough
Armaments squadron
Bottom left and right, aerial views of an airfield, annotated '4 pages to do with Bob's work as test pilot Armaments…
Tags: aerial photograph; air sea rescue; aircrew; Halifax; Lancaster; pilot
Pilot wins D.F.C
Middle and bottom, congratulations to Bob on his award.
Right page; top, title of the Vauxhall Mirror.
Middle, report of Bob's operational career…
Aerial views
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; pilot
Swift and Sure
Tags: 51 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; crash; killed in action; medical officer; pilot; RAF Dishforth
Civilian life
Bottom; six children sat in a cart.
Right page: top, a group of seven men standing alongside an aircraft with a man standing in its open doorway, annotated 'Bob was engaged in charter…
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; pilot
Bob's aircraft
Whitley aircraft, B-DY, C-DY and E-DY, flying in formation; bottom, crashed Whitley MH-H, annotated 'Usworth 17 11…
Two part interview with Bob Panton
Part 1. Bob Panton was a child during the war. One day as his father was coming towards their house Bob saw three Dornier 17 come into view. Then out of the sun came six Spitfires and a battle started in front…