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- Tags: searchlight
61 Squadron operations 1943
Tags: 1660 HCU; 1661 HCU; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; navigator; pilot; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Syerston; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); searchlight; target indicator; training; wireless operator
A Bomber Crew's story
Wellington attacked by Me 110
Tags: 99 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bombing; Me 110; searchlight; shot down; Wellington
Harrold Bratley - biography
After the raid
Wismar 12/13 October 1942
Tags: 61 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; Lancaster; searchlight
Award for the Best Night Photographs July 44
Tags: 104 Squadron; bombing; rivalry; searchlight; Wellington
Award for the Best Night Photographs Month of June
Tags: 104 Squadron; bombing; rivalry; searchlight; Wellington
Searchlight Control Notes
Tags: radar; searchlight; training
Route map - Ludwigshafen and Osterfeld
Tags: 195 Squadron; aircrew; bombing; navigator; RAF Witchford; searchlight
Guns Massed Miles Deep in Desperate Defence of Ruhr
Rose turret poster
Tags: air gunner; aircrew; searchlight
Searchlight homing
Tags: searchlight; training
Berlin
Night photograph and Whitley
Tags: 102 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; searchlight; Whitley
Bomber Command report on night operations - night 3/4 May 1944
Main Ops - with crew only
Tags: 12 Squadron; 626 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); ground crew; ground personnel; intelligence officer; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 109; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; P-51; Pathfinders; searchlight; Spitfire; superstition; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Box file cover for album in memory of Flight Sergeant Peter Raeburn Jenkinson DFM
Bodenorganisation Großraum-Nachtjagd Luftflotte Reich
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; searchlight
Personal Report No 7 on Operational Flight
Story of the last few minutes of JB529, DX-F
Recommendation for award of Distinguished Flying Medal
Flying Control Logbook
Tags: air sea rescue; bombing; RAF Tholthorpe; searchlight
Duisburg
Photo 1 is a daylight image with all the details obscured by explosions…
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…