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Lancasters issued to No. 166 squadron between September 1943 and April 1945
Tags: 100 Squadron; 101 Squadron; 103 Squadron; 12 Squadron; 153 Squadron; 1656 HCU; 166 Squadron; 1660 HCU; 1667 HCU; 300 Squadron; 460 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 550 Squadron; 57 Squadron; 576 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; bomb aimer; bomb struck; Bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); bombing of Nuremberg (30 / 31 March 1944); Conspicuous Gallantry Medal; crash; final resting place; flight engineer; forced landing; Fw 190; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hurricane; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Me 109; Me 110; mid-air collision; mine laying; navigator; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Operation Dodge (1945); pilot; prisoner of war; RAF Bradwell Bay; RAF Coningsby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Kirmington; RAF Leeming; RAF Lindholme; RAF Manston; RAF Syerston; RAF Woodbridge; shot down; tactical support for Normandy troops; take-off crash; training; V-1; V-weapon; wireless operator
One Day in May on a Bomber Station
Tags: 102 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; Blenheim; bomb aimer; bombing; briefing; flight engineer; fuelling; ground personnel; Halifax; incendiary device; mess; meteorological officer; navigator; Pathfinders; perception of bombing war; pilot; RAF Dalton; RAF Horsham St Faith; RAF Topcliffe; superstition; target indicator; wireless operator
Three airmen
16/17th June - Target Essen
19/20th May 1942 Target Mannheim
Flying Officer Charles Arthur Hill "Jack" Darby
#1 is two men in a sandbag bunker with a gun. It is captioned 'CAH Darby Ground Defence at ?Tiitchfield'
#2 is seven airmen standing in front of their Lancaster. It is captioned 'F/O Darby Bomb Aimer P/O Jack Hart Pilot …
Seven aircrew
Stirling and crew
Harold Southgate and George
Posed standing on grass on the left side of 50 Squadron Lancaster rear fuselage.
Tags: 50 Squadron; aircrew; Lancaster; pilot; wireless operator
J C Cockram and crew
Second and third are the crew posed in front of Halifax 'Jane' on dispersal, servicing equipment in the background.
Fourth is of a Halifax…
Bomber Crew
Passenger document
Seven Airmen
Wireless operator dinghy drill
Tags: aircrew; ditching; wireless operator
Ted Thornhill's Lancaster
Robert Wilfred Hawkes' crew
Tags: aircrew; bomb aimer; pilot; wireless operator
Ivor Edwards
Day crew photo
Seven aircrew
Details of operations - of crew of Warrant Officer William Day - air gunner
Seven aircrew
Tags: aircrew; pilot; wireless operator
Headstones
Middle - white headstone for B Nundy.
Right - white headstone for W Delgarno.
Guns Massed Miles Deep in Desperate Defence of Ruhr
Six Airmen
L to R Navigator, Bomb- Aimer'.
Information supplied with the…