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- Tags: shot down
Ron Riding's Royal Canadian Air Force observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-24; bale out; Battle; C-47; Cook’s tour; evading; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; Hudson; Lancaster; navigator; observer; operational training unit; Oxford; prisoner of war; RAF Dishforth; RAF Northolt; RAF Oakington; Second Tactical Air Force; shot down; Stirling; submarine; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington; York
Last Flight of Stirling BK604
Robert Brown’s South African Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Page 20/Scanlon/Arnhem/Sept 44
Heroes of the Air War (No. 39) Captain Swales
467 Squadron RAAF
Tags: 467 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; flight engineer; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); pilot; RAF Waddington; shot down; wireless operator
Shot down and taken prisoner
A POWs Memories
Tags: air gunner; bombing; Dulag Luft; evading; Lancaster; pilot; prisoner of war; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag Luft 7
Sergeant George B Thomson - Lancaster shot down
Tags: 15 Squadron; aircrew; bale out; bombing; killed in action; Lancaster; Me 110; prisoner of war; shot down
Lecture - "PRESS ON"
Tags: 102 Squadron; 35 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; B-17; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); ditching; Fw 190; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 110; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Honeybourne; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Pocklington; RAF Rufforth; shot down; Spitfire; Typhoon; Walrus; Whitley
Nedeweert
List of some of Frank Manion's operations
Reg Harrison and fellow pilots
Pat Hogan's account of being shot down and baling out
Report on loss of aircraft on operations
Pat Hogan's recollection of events on 3/4 March 1945 written to a relative of Flying Officer Alan Shelton
Tags: 466 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; bale out; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; crewing up; Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain (1926 -); entertainment; ethnic or religious minorities; faith; final resting place; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; home front; Ju 88; killed in action; Me 109; military living conditions; military service conditions; navigator; pilot; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Church Broughton; RAF Driffield; RAF Lichfield; sanitation; shot down; training; wireless operator
Eric Hookings's life story book 2
Prisoner of war record
Tags: 106 Squadron; 44 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; prisoner of war; shot down
The memoir of Sergeant Harry J Whitwell wireless operator / air gunner 50 Squadron RAF
Tags: 50 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; Dulag Luft; final resting place; flight engineer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; navigator; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Skellingthorpe; Red Cross; shot down; target indicator; wireless operator / air gunner
Wally Layne's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 50 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; Dominie; Gneisenau; Hampden; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Lindholme; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; Scharnhorst; shot down; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator
Ian Henderson's diary 1944
Recollection of the navigator of a Lancaster which took part in the bombing of Dresden on 13/14 February 1945
Henry Wagner's life story. Part one
Tags: 51 Squadron; aerial photograph; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; briefing; C-47; Caterpillar Club; coping mechanism; crewing up; debriefing; Dulag Luft; evading; final resting place; flight engineer; Gee; Halifax; Halifax Mk 3; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; killed in action; Master Bomber; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; missing in action; navigator; operational training unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Abingdon; RAF Acaster Malbis; RAF Marston Moor; RAF Snaith; RAF West Freugh; recruitment; Red Cross; shot down; Stalag 3A; Stalag Luft 7; target indicator; target photograph; the long march; Tiger Moth; training; Whitley; Window