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- Tags: 83 Squadron
Maurice James Blower’s Royal Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Tags: 10 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 1661 HCU; 19 OTU; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of the Normandy coastal batteries (5/6 June 1944); bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); Flying Training School; forced landing; H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Instructor; Lancaster; Manchester; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); observer; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Coningsby; RAF Forres; RAF Kinloss; RAF St Eval; RAF Swinderby; RAF Wigsley; RAF Winthorpe; RAF Wyton; Stirling; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Hampdens, Wimpeys and Barbed Wire
Tags: 1 Group; 102 Squadron; 106 Squadron; 14 OTU; 25 OTU; 3 Group; 4 Group; 427 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 50 Squadron; 6 Group; 617 Squadron; 76 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Botha; briefing; crash; debriefing; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Flying Medal; Do 217; Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943); entertainment; forced landing; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Gneisenau; ground personnel; Halifax; Hampden; hangar; Harrow; intelligence officer; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Manchester; Me 110; mess; military discipline; military ethos; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Oboe; observer; Operational Training Unit; perception of bombing war; pilot; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Croft; RAF Digby; RAF Evanton; RAF Finningley; RAF Leeming; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Manby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Middleton St George; RAF Mildenhall; RAF North Coates; RAF North Luffenham; RAF Padgate; RAF Pocklington; RAF Scampton; RAF Syerston; RAF Thornaby; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Waddington; RAF Wick; recruitment; Scharnhorst; searchlight; shot down; sport; Stalag 8B; Stirling; strafing; Swordfish; take-off crash; the long march; Tirpitz; training; Wellington; Whitley; Window; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
Peter Hoare - Flying Timeline
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
H2S -aka "Town Finder", "Home Sweet Home", "Blind Navigation", "Y" and "Rotterdamgerat"
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; aircrew; H2S; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; mine laying; Mosquito; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; radar; RAF Coningsby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Shawbury; RAF Syerston; RAF Wainfleet; RAF Wigsley; Schräge Musik; Stirling; target indicator; training; Wellington
Bomber Command Career 1942-49
A second copy includes some photographs.
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; Cornell; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; entertainment; FIDO; Flying Training School; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cardington; RAF Carlisle; RAF Castel Benito; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dumfries; RAF Harrogate; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lissett; RAF Metheringham; RAF Shallufa; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Brandon; RCAF Caron; RCAF Estevan; RCAF Moncton; sport; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
Life after Metheringham - Memories of Coningsby from Feb 45 to VJ Day
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; anti-aircraft fire; bombing; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); bombing of Mailly-le-Camp (3/4 May 1944); Cook’s tour; Distinguished Service Order; evading; Gee; H2S; Lancaster; Lincoln; master bomber; mess; Meteor; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Pathfinders; RAF Bourn; RAF Coningsby; RAF East Kirkby; RAF Hemswell; RAF Metheringham; RAF Tangmere; RAF Warboys; RAF Westcott; RAF Wyton; target indicator; Tiger force
Crewing Up - June 44 - November 45
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; bomb aimer; crewing up; flight engineer; hangar; Heavy Conversion Unit; lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; navigator; Navy, Army and Air Force Institute; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Binbrook; RAF Coningsby; RAF Metheringham; RAF Scampton; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Turweston; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; Tiger force; training; Wellington; wireless operator
Harry George Samual Garnham
There then follows a summary of a typical training route to becoming an air gunner and it is presumed Harry followed this…
Tags: 25 OTU; 83 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Bombing and Gunnery School; crewing up; final resting place; flight engineer; Hampden; killed in action; Manchester; memorial; mine laying; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Finningley; RAF Penrhos; RAF Scampton; recruitment; training; wireless operator / air gunner
List of RAF airmen, 44 and 83 Squadrons
Framed photograph of D I Sharp
DI Sharp's service record
Clare Connor's grave
Eulogy to Flying Officer Clare Arthur Connor DFC
The Unknown Canadian
There is a second copy.
Connor, P/O Clare Arthur Hovendon (40892) biography
E Renfrey’s South African Air Force Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book
Trained at Nos. 43 and 45 Air Schools , 16 Operational Training Unit and 1660…
Tags: 156 Squadron; 16 OTU; 1660 HCU; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); Cook’s tour; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Manchester; master bomber; navigator; observer; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Operational Training Unit; Oxford; Pathfinders; RAF Bardney; RAF Barford St John; RAF Swinderby; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Upwood; RAF Warboys; RAF Wyton; SAAF Oudtshoorn; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Peter John Reynolds research notes
Chan Chandler's biography
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet…
Tags: 115 Squadron; 467 Squadron; 49 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; air sea rescue; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; B-17; Battle; Bismarck; Blenheim; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); briefing; C-47; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Defiant; Distinguished Flying Cross; Distinguished Service Order; ditching; forced landing; Gee; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Gneisenau; Goldfish Club; H2S; Halifax; Hampden; Harris, Arthur Travers (1892-1984); incendiary device; Ju 88; Lancaster; Manchester; master bomber; Me 109; mess; mine laying; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Mosquito; Nissen hut; Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944); Oboe; Operation Exodus (1945); Operation Manna (29 Apr – 8 May 1945); Pathfinders; pilot; prisoner of war; propaganda; RAF Andover; RAF Boscombe Down; RAF Castle Combe; RAF Castle Kennedy; RAF Coningsby; RAF Croydon; RAF Earls Colne; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Honington; RAF hospital Rauceby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Manston; RAF Martlesham Heath; RAF Middle Wallop; RAF Northolt; RAF Old Sarum; RAF Scampton; RAF Tangmere; RAF Upper Heyford; RAF Uxbridge; RAF West Freugh; RAF White Waltham; RAF Wittering; RAF Woodhall Spa; RAF Yatesbury; Ruhr Campaign (5 March – 10 July 1943); Scharnhorst; searchlight; Spitfire; Stirling; Sunderland; Tallboy; target indicator; target photograph; Tirpitz; training; V-1; V-2; V-3; V-weapon; Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887-1979); Wellington; Window; wireless operator / air gunner
Gratitude and appreciation
Trevor Blewitt’s RAF service record
Tags: 106 Squadron; 209 Squadron; 44 Squadron; 50 Squadron; 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; 83 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Blenheim; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); Hurricane; Lancaster; Lincoln; Lysander; Manchester; Mosquito; RAF Abu Sueir; RAF Coningsby; RAF Cranwell; RAF Halton; RAF Scampton; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Strubby; RAF Waddington; RAF Woodhall Spa; sport; training
Aircrew and ground crew
On the reverse 'R Terras, I don't know who these people are. 83…
Tags: 83 Squadron; aircrew; ground crew; Lancaster; pilot
Engine and Airframe mechanics B Flight, 83 Squadron
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Newspaper cutting - airmen back with squadrons
This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.
Permission to be out of camp
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Robert Terras's identification card
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Tags: 83 Squadron