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A yank in the RCAF

Archives, In Storage, B2445

This is the memoir of American Major Hubert Knilans of No. 617 Squadron detailing his time in the RCAF. He flew in Operation Taxable, a deception operation leading up to D-Day.

A yank in the RCAF | B2445

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  • 12,000lb, MC, Tallboy (Mark unknown) [1]
  • Avro Lancaster [1]
  • Avro Lancaster Mk. I [1]
  • Avro Lancaster Mk. III [1]
  • De Havilland Mosquito [1]
  • Tirpitz, Battleship [1]

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  • 1654 Heavy Conversion Unit (RAF) [1]
  • 1660 Heavy Conversion Unit (RAF) [1]
  • 5 Group (RAF) [1]
  • 617 Squadron (RAF) [1]
  • 619 Squadron (RAF) [1]
  • 8 Group PFF (RAF) [1]
  • 9 Squadron (RAF) [1]
  • AM Sir Harold Brownlow Morgan (Micky) Martin [1]
  • Air Cdre Joseph Aidan MacCarthy [1]
  • Bomber Command (RAF) [1]

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  • Antheor Viaduct [1]
  • Berlin [1]
  • Boulogne [1]
  • Canada [1]
  • Clermont-Ferrand [1]
  • Cologne [1]
  • Dortmund-Ems Canal [1]
  • Düsseldorf [1]
  • Essen [1]
  • Hagen [1]

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  • Germany, Bombing of, 1939-1945 [1]
  • Nickel, 1939-1945 [1]
  • Overlord, 1944 June [1]

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  • In Storage [1]

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