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Bomb Aimer's Notes
Bomb Aimer's Notes
In the notes are 12,000lb bombs dropped…
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Tallboy; target indicator
Bomb Aimer's Notes
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Pathfinders; target indicator
Bomb Aimer's Notes
Bomb Aimer's Notes
Also aircraft call sign and fuel…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Mosquito; Pathfinders; target indicator; Window
Bomb Aimer's Notes
Also aircraft call sign and radio code…
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Mosquito; Pathfinders; target indicator
Bomb Aimer's Notes
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; bombing; Pathfinders; target indicator
Nos Aviations
Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck describes large composition and successes of RAF during 1943 whilst underlining the threat still posed by Germany.
Les machines
Maintains Anglo-American aircraft production is four times…
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; B-17; B-24; B-25; B-26; Beaufighter; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Boston; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Halifax; Hudson; Lancaster; Mosquito; P-51; Pathfinders; pilot; propaganda; reconnaissance photograph; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; target indicator; training; Typhoon; York
Nazis' Big Oil Plants Hit
Tags: bombing; Lancaster; target indicator
Ivor Cole's Wireless Course Notes
Tags: aerial photograph; aircrew; B-17; B-24; bombing; Halifax; Lancaster; Me 262; Mosquito; P-51; Spitfire; target indicator; training; wireless operator
A year in the Life
Tags: 12 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 625 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; B-24; bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Pas de Calais V-1 sites (24/25 June 1944); Distinguished Flying Cross; entertainment; evading; FIDO; Gee; H2S; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; incendiary device; Ju 88; killed in action; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Me 110; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Oboe; operational training unit; P-51; Pathfinders; Photographic Reconnaissance Unit; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Binbrook; RAF Blyton; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Dunholme Lodge; RAF Finningley; RAF Hemswell; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kelstern; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manby; RAF Manston; RAF Methwold; RAF Wickenby; RAF Wigtown; RAF Woodbridge; Spitfire; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; V-1; V-2; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
General Memories
He describes training in London, Bridlington, Morpeth and Wymeswold. Later training as a crew was at Castle Donington, Lindholme and Hemswell. He describes in detail his crew, aircraft and operations.…
Tags: 12 Squadron; 626 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); crewing up; escaping; flight engineer; Halifax; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Martinet; Me 262; military ethos; navigator; operational training unit; pilot; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridlington; RAF Castle Donington; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Morpeth; RAF Tilstock; RAF Wickenby; RAF Woodbridge; RAF Wymeswold; superstition; target indicator; V-1; Wellington; wireless operator
War Memoir - George Bilton
Tags: 427 Squadron; 428 Squadron; 434 Squadron; 6 Group; aerial photograph; Air Raid Precautions; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing; C-47; civil defence; Cook’s tour; crewing up; flight engineer; Halifax; heavy conversion unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Pathfinders; RAF Bruntingthorpe; RAF Croft; RAF Harwell; RAF Middleton St George; RAF St Athan; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Topcliffe; RAF Warboys; RAF Woodbridge; target indicator; target photograph; training; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Alec Pyle's Operational Flight Records
Schweinfurt
Bomb aimers briefing sheet for an operation
Time out for war
Tags: 1 Group; 12 Squadron; 3 Group; 50 Squadron; 576 Squadron; aircrew; Anson; bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); Cook’s tour; coping mechanism; crewing up; Distinguished Flying Cross; faith; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster finishing school; Master Bomber; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); Pathfinders; RAF Chedburgh; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hemswell; RAF Lindholme; RAF Methwold; RAF Sturgate; RAF Torquay; RAF Waddington; RAF Wickenby; Stirling; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; training; V-1; V-2; V-weapon; Wellington
An Airmans Tale
Chapter 1. Under Training.
Having been assessed in Birmingham Geoff sets off to London in August 1942 for training, at Lords. Initial training was at Bridlington then gunnery school at…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 514 Squadron; 75 Squadron; 90 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bombing; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); escaping; evading; flight engineer; ground personnel; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Harvard; heavy conversion unit; Ju 88; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 2; Lancaster Mk 3; Martinet; Me 109; Me 110; Me 410; Meteor; Mosquito; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; operational training unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Brackla; RAF Bridgnorth; RAF Bridlington; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cosford; RAF Downham Market; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Feltwell; RAF Foulsham; RAF Halfpenny Green; RAF Hornchurch; RAF Jurby; RAF Little Rissington; RAF Mepal; RAF Newmarket; RAF South Cerney; RAF Stradishall; RAF Ternhill; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Witchford; RAF Wratting Common; Spitfire; Stirling; target indicator; the long march; Tiger force; training; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington; wireless operator; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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
Biography of Squadron Leader Lighton Verdon-Roe DFC RAFVR -156 (PFF) Squadron
Tags: 156 Squadron; 35 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 7 Squadron; 83 Squadron; aircrew; Bennett, Donald Clifford Tyndall (1910-1986); bombing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; H2S; Halifax; killed in action; Lancaster; Mosquito; Oboe; Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Breighton; RAF Shawbury; RAF South Cerney; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; Stalag Luft 3; Stirling; target indicator; Wellington
Bomber Command report on night operations - night 3/4 May 1944
Bill Lucas, a short account of his Royal Air Force service
Tags: 15 Squadron; 162 Squadron; 8 Group; 9 Squadron; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Distinguished Flying Cross; Gneisenau; memorial; Mosquito; operational training unit; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; RAF Bourn; RAF Honington; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Wyton; Scharnhorst; sport; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
Main Ops - with crew only
Tags: 12 Squadron; 626 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; Bombing of Trossy St Maximin (3 August 1944); ground crew; Ju 88; Lancaster; Master Bomber; Me 109; Mosquito; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; P-51; Pathfinders; Spitfire; superstition; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Copy of Peter Potter's flying logbook
Tags: 30 OTU; 626 Squadron; air gunner; Air Gunnery School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Luftwaffe night-fighter airfields (15 August 1944); Chadwick, Roy (1893-1947); fear; Ju 88; Lancaster; Me 109; Me 262; military ethos; mine laying; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); nose art; operational training unit; RAF Hixon; RAF Pembrey; RAF Wickenby; tactical support for Normandy troops; target indicator; V-1; V-weapon; Wellington
Wally Layne's observer's and air gunner's flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air sea rescue; aircrew; Anson; Battle; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); crash; Dominie; Gneisenau; Hampden; heavy conversion unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Manchester; mine laying; missing in action; operational training unit; prisoner of war; RAF Bourn; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Lindholme; RAF Penrhos; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Waddington; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Scharnhorst; shot down; target indicator; training; Whitley; wireless operator