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Logbooks
Do you have a WW2 Flying Log Book in your possession?
If so it would be a huge help if you could add logbook entries to our new database. Thank you.
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The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website.
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- 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time.
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- 19th Nov 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than
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Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the War? Our
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Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to WW2. We would like to obtain digital copies of any documents or photographs relating to WW2 you may have at home. If you have any unwanted
photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them.
The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted.
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Did you know? We also have a section on The Great War. and a
Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.
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Want to know more about No. 1657 Heavy Conversion Unit, Royal Air Force? There are:2003 items tagged No. 1657 Heavy Conversion Unit, Royal Air Force available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. |
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George Fenwick Findley 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron. My uncle George Fenwick Findley was the last of his crew members of 218 Gold Coast Squadron. They were:- Bill Streeter RAF
- Tom Mankelow RAF
- Robert Daniel Stirling DFC, pilot RAAF
- Paul Chase Miller RAAF
- Lancelot Keith Gregory RAAF
- George Seymour RNZAF
Uncle George was an air gunner. He enlisted at No2 ITS Bradfield park and trained at No2 WAGS parkes, Port Pirie, Bradfield Park, Melbourne. He travelled to England and continued his training at 11OTU, 1657CU RAF Stradishall, 1483 RAF Newmarket and joined 218 Squadron. He flew from Downham Market, Tempsford, Woolfox Lodge, and Methwold. Operations he flew were: - 3/10/1943 ops mining
- 24/10/1943 ops mining Frisian islands
- 7/11/1943 ops mining Bordeaux
- 18/11/1943 ops Mannheim
- 19/11/1943 ops Leverkusen
- 22/11/1943 ops Berlin
- 1/12/1943 Skaggerack
- 28/1/1944 ops mining Denmark
- 4/3/1944 special target
- 7/3/1944 special target
- 18/4/1944 ops mining Keil Bay
- 20/4/1944 ops bombing Chambley
- 22/4/1944 bombing Laon
- 23/4/1944 ops bombing Brussels
- 25/4/1944 ops bombing Chambley
- 1/5/1944 ops bombing Chambley
- 7/5/1944 ops mining La Rochelle
- 13/5/1944 ops mining Cherbourg
- 5/6/1944 ops special duties for D-Day
- 17/6/1944 ops bombing Montider
- 21/6/1944 ops mining Guernsey
- 24/6/1944 ops bombing Rimeux
- 23/7/1944 ops mining Brest
- 25/8/1944 ops bombing Russelsheim
- 29/8/1944 ops bombing Stettin
- 31/8/1944 ops bombing
- 10/9/1944 ops bombing le Harve
- 14/10/1944 ops bombing Duisburg
- 14/10/1944 ops Duisburg
- 18/10/1944 ops bombing Bonn
- 22/10/1944 ops bombing Neuss
- 23/10/1944 ops bombing Essen
- 26/10/1944 ops Leverkusen
- 30/10/1944 ops bombing Wesseling
- 31/10/1944 ops bombing Bottrop
The aircraft he flew in are: Wackett, Fairy Battle, Wellington, Stirling 111, Lancaster 1. He was a member of 218 squadron from 29/9/1943 to 21/10/1944 in the crew of Lancaster HA-E.
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