╨╧рб▒с>■  68■   5                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ье┴Лa Ё┐№jbjb1├1├ %.[б[бю       ИЮЮЮЮЮЮЮ   8D P$┘ъААААААААPRRRRRR,├Rn~ЮААААА~DЮЮААУDDDА(ЮАЮАPD▓4ц"ЮЮЮЮАPDDЮЮDt ╣¤▒┼ иЬDD й0┘DГDГDDЮ  These are the cutlines for the photographs in the book: Major Brackley, 214 Squadron C.O. 1917/18. Bill "Tiny" Wardrop fusing bombs. Facing: No. 214 Squadron Officers, Coudekerque 1917. (I.W.M.) Manning the front gun position. Sgt Pilot L.A. Dell with his pet dog "Nigger" (L.A. Dell) Top: Flak damaged Handley Page down on the sands near Dunkirk. (S. Leslie) Bottom: 230 lb bomb being loaded. (I.W.M.) Facing: No. 214 Squadron Aircrew, 1918. (Stuart Leslie) Top: Coudekerque 1917 - Handley Page O/100 in foreground. Bottom: Coudekerque. 13 Handley Pages. Bessoneau Hangars. (I.W.M.) F/Lt Starke-Browne in cockpit of DH 10 at Abu Sueir, Egypt, 1920. Pyramids and Sphynx from the air. Facing: Ground crew at Abu Sueir, Egypt 1919. LAC Baldwin at left. W/Cdr O.C. Bryson, MC, DFC, AM, C.O. 214 Sqdn 1937/38.(Flt Int.) Facing: Vickers Virginia Mark X, 1936. (M.O.D.) Handley Page Harrows, Feltwell 1937. Facing: 214 Squadron aircrew, Feltwell, 1937 Wireless operator and navigator inside a Harrow, 1937. (Flight Int.) Top: P/O Lawson at the controls, 1940. Bottom: Sgt Geoff Cole and crew, 1940. Top: Briefing for a raid, Stradishall, 1940 Bottom: " Tubby" Baker and crew. Top: Vickers Wellington I Bomber, 214 Squadron, 1940. Bottom: Bomb aimer in nose of a Wimpy, 1941 Sgt Merryweather in turret. Top: F/Lt Keith Falconer DFC (left), P/O Bill Esplen (right), members of Commander Cruickshanks' crew, killed on operations to Berlin, Sept 7, 1941. Bottom: G/Cpt Pickard (left), W/Cdr Cruickshanks (right), 1941. Top: Arming bombs at Stradishall. Bottom: 4,000 pound "cookie" loaded on Wellington. Bomb doors removed. Top: (left) "Tiggy" Jones, missing over Emden, June 25,'41. (right) Johnny Rushton RCAF killed Sept 20, '41, returning from Berlin on last trip of his tour. Bottom: Ground crew at work on a Wellington. Top: Squadron C.O. W/Cdr Barry Macfadden DFC, lost his life whilst making an attack on the Scharnhorst, February 12, 1942. Bottom: Crew of Sri Duroh, "The Thunder", Wellington presented by the Federated Malay States, 1941. (I.W.M.) Top: Flight Engineer, Sgt Harold Bidmead Bottom: Target photo of Rostock, by F/Lt Nixon (pilot), and P/O Whittingham (observer), night of April 25/26, 1942. Squadron C.O. W/Cdr A. H. Smythe DSO, DFC, AFC (I.W. M.) Top: F/Lt Youseman and P/O "Dutch" Holland with lorry they appropriated in an escape exercise. They were back at Chedburgh before the crew bus, which had dropped them miles from camp. P/O Holland was later killed on a trip to Turin. Bottom: Sgt Griggs with his crew inspecting battle damaged Stirling N3751 on return from Bremen. The six surviving crew members each received the DFM for the part they played in this epic sortie. Demise of a No.214 Stirling over Hanover, Sept 22, 1943. Top: Pathfinder flares light target. Middle: Searchlight crew in action. Bottom: A.A. defences open up. Hanover, Sept 22, 1943 (continued). Top: Stirling zig-zags down in flames. Bottom left: Crash site under guard. Bottom right: Some incendiaries still aboard. Top: Dinghy drill in static water tank, Chedburgh. Bottom: Sgt Johnston RNZAF, with crew; 5 New Zealanders and 2 Canadians. Facing: 214 Sqdn Aircrew, Aug '43. Top: Stirling crews awaiting take-off for Berlin, August 23, 1943. Bottom: Fires still burning in Berlin after raid of Aug. 23/24, 1943. Top: Sergeants' Mess dance, Oulton, 1944.Bottom: Sqdn wireless operators, '44. Top: F/O George Wright, bomb aimer "Ricky", air gunners Williams, Southgate. Bottom: (left) Wright's waist gunners. (rt) Hazel Southgate, M.T. driver, Oulton. Top: Blickling Hall. Bottom: F/Lt Wynne with his second crew, the first having been lost over Germany and most of them taken prisoner and then murdered . Top: S/Ldr Day DFC (RCAF) and Crew Bottom: As a prelude to the invasion of Europe, attacks were made against enemy airfields. This remarkable photograph was taken by a cameraman of the RAF Film Production Unit showing Tours Airfield being bombed by 50 Lancasters of No. 5 Group, the night of May 7/8, '44. One Mosquito marker aircraft and one Lancaster were lost. No. 214 Squadron provided RCM cover on this operation. (IWM) Top: Tours Airfield before attack. Bottom:Tours Airfield after attack, May 7/8,'44. Top: V-2 Rocket leaving launch site in Holland (IWM). Bottom: 214 Squadron Fortress flying out on a 'Big Ben' sortie. Facing: Squadron Aircrew Ц Oulton 1944. F/Lt George Wright, Adjutant, 214 Squadron Top: Liberator VIII at dispersal, Amendola, Italy. Bottom: Liberator crew, Amendola: H. Spivey A/G, F/Lt Taylor nav, H.Pope nav, S/Ldr Landon DFC pilot, R. Burt eng, E. Moore W/Op. Top: Lincolns lined up at Eastleigh (Nairobi) Kenya Ц 1954. Bottom: Trolleys of 500lb bombs, ready for loading into Lincolns of 214 Squadron, Kenya. Facing: One of the detachments sent to Kenya in 1954. Top: Phil Goodman, radar mechanic. Bottom: W/Cdr Landon DFC doing 'beat up' for the film "Appointment in London".Facing: Second detachment to Kenya 1954. Top: One of No. 214 Squadron's Victors at Marham. Bottom: Longest non-stop point to point flight ever made by a British aircraft, completed May 26, 1959, when 214 Squadron Valiant landed at Singapore after 8,110 mile flight from Marham, Norfolk. 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