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This section is for Articles and Misc items of a more general nature  connected to 103 Squadron which were written by me or one of my contacts or submitted from another source.

Into the Drink - The Ditching of Wellington X3404 Sgt Kitney and others by David Fell

 Recollections of W/C Ken Wallis MBE

Sgt C E L Hare and crew - The Late Arrivals by David Fell

H S Rathbone and crew - 103 Sqn - Article from Fleigerblatt - Aircrew Association of the German Armed Forces - No. 3/2010

Lancaster ED888 - 103 Sqn and 576 Sqn - 1943 to 1944.

The Drover’s Tale by Fred Mitchell

Something Special by Sid Finn

A Letter Home by Charles Wagon

The Great Escape - Cross and McGill

A Night to Remember

A Busy Day on the Western Front - 30th October 1918

The Passing Out Ceremony – RHJ (Sandy) Rowe DFM RAFVR

Memories of 1943 by F/L RH (Sandy) Rowe DFM

The Memoirs of F/L Jacob t'Hart DFC and bar RAFVR

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Pathfinder Force

Mine Laying Operations 103 Sqn & 576 Sqn

Decoys Dummies and Aerial Phenomena

Target Marking Methods

Main Navigational Systems Used by RAF Bomber Command and RAF Pathfinders

Air Dropped Weapons 103 Squadron 576 Squadron

Defensive Armament - 103 Squadron and 576 Squadron

Billie - Lancaster - W4364 - 103 Squadron

RAF Bombsights WW1 and WW2

Flak Scrapbook

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I have set up a section here for items written about various operations in which 103 Squadron were involved. Some have been on the site for sometime. To return to this page you may have to use your back browser button. I wil add to this list from time to time as all these ops are significant in one way or another.

Armed Reconnaissance – Franco German Border - 16 September 1939

Armed Reconnaissance/Leaflet Raid – Koblenz area – 20/21 March 1940

Sedan area - 14 May 1940

Chateau Roumont, Belgium – 26 May 1940

Targets in Holland - 21/22 July 1940

Ostend docks and barges - 22 December 1940

Brest, Cherbourg and La Pallice Raids - 24 July 1941

The Channel Dash - 11/12/13 February 1942

Billancourt Renault Factory, Paris – 3/4 March 1942

Lubeck - 28/29 March 1942

Poissy, Paris - 2/3 April 1942

Rostock - 23/24 April 1942

Cologne - The First Thousand Bomber Raid - 30/31 May 1942

Bremen – 2/3 July 1942

Dusseldorf - 1 August 1942

Milan - 24 / 25 October 1942

Mine laying Biarritz / Biscay coast - 21 November 1942

Wilhelmshaven - The Big Bang - 11/12 February 1943

Essen - 5/6 March 1943

Mine laying off coast of Northern Europe - 28/29 April 1943

Hamburg, Essen Window and the Firestorm - July 1943

Peenemunde Raid - 17/18 August 1943

Kassel - 3/4 October 1944

Hanover - 8/9 October 1943

Berlin - 22/23 November 1943

Berlin - 28/29 January 1944

Magdeburg – 21/22 January 1944

Leipzig - 19/20 February 1944

Augsburg - 25/26 February 1944

Berlin - The Night of the Strong Winds - 24/25 March 1944

Nuremberg - The Blackest Night for Bomber Command in WW2 - 30/31 March 1944

Friedrichshafen - 27/28 April 1944

Maintenon - 30 April/1 May 1944

The Mailly Raid - 3/4 May 1944

Vire  - 6/7 June 1944

Attacks on V Weapon sites – Pas De Calais – Summer 1944

Sanneville/Schloven/Buer  - 18/19 July 1944

Kiel - 23/24 July 1944

Stuttgart – 28/29 July 1944 (Black Friday )

Westkapelle - 3 October 1944

Fort Frederik Hendrik - 11/12 October 1944

Duisberg - Operation Hurricane- 14 October 1944

Urft Dam  - 3/4 December 1944

Leuna - 6/7 December 1944

Ulm - 17/18 December 1944

Dresden 13/14 February 1945

Chemnitz – 14/15 February 1945

Berchtesgaden Raid - 25 April 1945

Operation  Exodus - 28 April 1945

Operation Manna - April/May 1945

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