Monthly Archives: December 2008
Posts will be light …
… and probably non-existent over the next few days. The most seasonal interwebnet link I can find is this one, which shows figures who may well be officers from a Bomber Command squadron playing in the snow outside the Petwood … Continue reading
Filed under Lincolnshire, Petwood Hotel
RAF Coningsby briefing room, wartime view
Jennie Gray’s set of web pages about 97 Squadron’s role as a Pathfinder squadron date cover a period starting in late 1943, just after David Maltby and his crew were killed on the aborted Dortmund Ems raid. However, there are … Continue reading
Filed under Coningsby, Dortmund Ems
Question time
For some time Ron Lapp from Winnipeg has been trying to find out the answer to a question of detail about the Dams Raid: When the Lancaster nose turret guns were fired, as they certainly were on the Dams raid, … Continue reading
John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson was the wireless operator in Vernon Byers’s aircraft, AJ-K, on the Dams Raid. This was the third aircraft to take off on the night of 16 May, and the first to be lost. Off course, it crossed … Continue reading
Filed under Dams Raid crews, Operation Chastise, Uncategorized
