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106 Squadron badge award
Photograph of an informal squadron award, comprising a 106 Squadron badge, signed by the squadron adjutant and the aircraft crew. Across the top of the document is the wording "Crew of 'Y' Yorker. Le Creusot - Milan - Genoa - Turin". Under the…
Airmen
Top - Six airmen outside a brick building. Five are RAF, of which three are wearing service dress and two battledress. The other, second from right, is an FAA airman. The annotation to the photograph reads: "L.R. Frank Ruskell, Johnny Wickins, Winco…
Aircrew and places
Top left- air-to-air photo of 30+ Lancasters flying at low level over a river, fields in foreground and buildings to rear. Location Blere. A shared label on the album page reads: "En route to Le Creusot" This apparently refers to the daylight…
Recommendation for Distinguished Flying Cross
Copy of the recommendation of a DFC for Flying Officer Frank Ruskell, signed by Wing Commander G Gibson, and confirmed on 31 December 1944.
Description kindly provided by the donor.
Description kindly provided by the donor.
Airmen and aiming point certificate
Top left - Group of aircrew queuing to board crew bus at an unidentified location. All are in flying kit with parachute harness and Mae Wests; several are carrying flight bags.
Top right - A group of nine airmen, two sitting, at RAF Syerston outside…
Top right - A group of nine airmen, two sitting, at RAF Syerston outside…
Airmen
Top left - Two aircrew standing outside a single-storey hut at RAF Syerston. Both are wearing battledress, parachute harness and Mae Wests. The man on the left wears flying boots. On the right is Flight Lieutenant Don Curtin, wearing lace-up shoes.…
Airmen
Top left - Eight aircrew in flying kit, most with parachute harness and Mae Wests, outside a single-storey Hut at RAF Syerston. Third from right is F/Lt Scrivenor, a navigator. At extreme right is an RAF officer wearing a greatcoat and peaked cap.…
Airmen
Top left - aircrew, wearing assorted flying clothing, including parachute harnesses and Mae Wests, in a group next to an aircrew bus at RAF Syerston.
Top right - Wing Commander Guy Gibson, dressed in sheepskin flying jacket, and two unidentified…
Top right - Wing Commander Guy Gibson, dressed in sheepskin flying jacket, and two unidentified…
106 Squadron aircrew and Manchesters
Members of 106 Sqn RAF, including the Commanding Officer, Wing Commander Guy Gibson (standing middle, front row), celebrate at RAF Coningsby after Operation Millennium, the the first ‘Thousand Bomber’ operation to Cologne, on 30/31 May 1942. The…
Hampdens, Wimpeys and Barbed Wire
Bomber Command wartime memoirs 1939-45 by Ted Allison. He completed 35 bomber operations as wireless operator/air gunner 1941-43, which he described as being looked down upon. The introduction describes his role as a Wop/Ag and how they're replaced…
Notes on Norman Hamment's operations
List operations with notes from September 1942 to July 1944 on 61, 97 and 635 Squadrons. Mentions returning on three engines, operation losses, daylight operations, hit by anti-aircraft fire, pathfinder ops, flew with Guy Gibson, battle of the Ruhr,…
Two photographs - 106 Squadron crews
Top - a large group of aircrew standing on taxiway with Manchesters in the background. Submitted with caption 'Members of No. 106 Sqn RAF, including the Commanding Officer, W/Cdr Guy Gibson (standing middle, front row), celebrate at RAF Coningsby…
106 Squadron photograph
A large group of airmen in front of and standing on a Lancaster. Submitted with caption '106 Sqn aircrew and ground personnel in group photograph with a Lancaster. Identifiable in the centre of the third row from the front is W/Cdr Guy Gibson, the…
Members of 106 Squadron on taxiway with Manchesters
A large crowd of aircrew on taxiway with Manchesters parked in background. Submitted with caption ' Members of No. 106 Sqn RAF, including the Commanding Officer, W/Cdr Guy Gibson (standing middle, front row), celebrate at RAF Coningsby after…
Aircrew and Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Top - three pilots wearing tunics in front of Lancaster with nose art. Submitted with caption 'W/Cdr Guy Gibson (centre), S/Ldr John Searby (left) and S/Ldr Peter Ward-Hunt (right) in front of 106 Sqn Lancaster ED593, "Admiral Prune II". Syerston,…
RAF Drop 10-Ton bombs
Page 21 of Marjorie Rogers' diary. One newspaper cutting about the dropping of the new bomb on Germany.
Eulogy to Flying Officer Clare Arthur Connor DFC
The eulogy was read at Brattleby church in the presence of Clare's widow, Elizabeth.
Connor, P/O Clare Arthur Hovendon (40892) biography
A brief biography of Clare.
Roy Chadwick and Guy Gibson
A half length portrait of the two men. The photograph has been signed but it is indecipherable.
Ten Dam Busters
Ten airmen. Guy Gibson centre front. A second copy has a list of the ten men.
The King, Queen, and Dam Busters
The group of airmen and the King and Queen are standing outside the Scampton Officers' Mess. Guy Gibson front, 3rd from the right, Barnes Wallis almost obscured behind the King. Station Commander Group Captain Whitworth is between Gibson and the…
John Vere Hopgood’s Royal Air Force Pilot’s Flying Log Book
John Vere Hopgood’s Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 23rd September 1940 until 16th May 1943. Trained as a pilot at No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School, Flying Training School (RAF College Cranwell), No. 2 School of Air Navigation and 14 Operational…