Other Links - Harrington Aviation Museum | CarpetBagger

Other Links - Harrington Aviation Museum | CarpetBagger
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Other Links of Interest
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The following internet links cover subject matter such as Operation Carpetbagger; the 801
st
/ 492
nd
Bomb Group; Harrington; SOE; OSS; Jedburghs etc.:
Tom Ensminger’s The Carpetbagger Page
Kim Juhler’s website on the Carpetbaggers
Website dedicated to the Tigers Revenge
, B24H 42-94816 of the 492
nd
BG that crashed in Norway 21
st
April 1945
Roger Day’s website “Rambury at War”
which includes details of the crash in which Lt Lawrence Berkoff of 856
th
BS 492
nd
BG was killed near Lambourn on the 8
th
September 1944
The Belgian Aviation History Association webpage on the crash at Aaigem of Henry W. Wolcott’s plane C for Charlie
Eric Russells short video on his Uncle
, Earl Underwood, Flight Engineer of the Wagstad crew who was killed when their Carpetbagger aircraft was hit by flak and crashed on the night of 3rd March 1944 at Lutz-en Dunois, France after a successful supply drop at Peter 54
Clipston School’s Wartime web pages
Jedburgh History
,
Jedburgh Team Composition
and
Jedburgh Operational Casualties
– Arthur Browns archived web pages
Special Operations in the European Theater
The Dutch Resistance and the OSS
Office of Strategic Studies Society website
OSS Operations in Norway
Listing of WW2 Special Operations Forces Codes & Cover Names ETO
Cross Channel Attack – The French Resistance
Website on Psychological warfare
SOE page generated by Clutch program
David Harrison’s website
with listing of agents from French Section of SOE
Website on the Sussex Teams
Robert Body’s Tempsford website
Roll of Honour website for Tempsford
Bob Body’s page on the RAF’s 161 (Special Duties) Squadron
Royal Air Force No 38 Group Squadrons website
Website on crashes in the Orkneys
and in particular that of
B-24 42-50331  that crashed at Walliwall, Near the Orkney capital of Kirkwall on 31 March 1945 while returning from a clandestine mission, all but one of the 14 on board were killed
Website on the US Army’s 99
th
Infantry Battalion
(Separate) from which the OSSs Norso Group was formed
Website dedicated to the memory of the Solomon Crew
of the American 885
th
Bombardment Squadron 15
th
Air Force operating out of Brindisi who crashed on the slopes of Mount Canin on the night of 16
th
October 1944
The Official Violette Szabo GC website
The website of the Military Intelligence Museum at Chicksands in Bedfordshire
. This museum contains the Intelligence Corps Collection; The Medmenham Collection devoted to aerial photography and image analysis; Displays on the joint service BRIXMIS intelligence gathering mission based in East Germany during the Cold War; The American radio intercept operations in Chicksands from 1950 until 1996; and a display commemorating those members of the Intelligence Corps who served in the SOE during World War 2
The following web pages include information on clandestine radios, Bletchley Park – Station X and code-breaking during WW2:
Article on clandestine radios
The Official Website of Bletchley Park
, Station X during WW2
Tony Sale’s website
on codes and ciphers during WW2
The following web pages include information on the WW2 British Resistance organisation; The Home Guard; and Civil Defence:
AUXUNIT News
, website of the Auxiliary Units, 1940 – 1944
The Home Guard website
“Most of those men are now long gone and dead but we, as a nation, should be proud of them.”:
The British Resistance Archive
The following web pages include information on Thor Missiles and the Royal Observer Corps:
Thor fact sheet
Strategic Air Command’s page on the Thor missile
Brian Webbs website
on space and astronomy information including RAF Thor launches from Vandenberg AFB
.
National Royal Observer Corps Association Website
Subterranea Britannica’s website
on the Royal Observer Corps
Steve Scanlon’s website
on the UK Nuclear Attack Warning System
Protect & Survive Archival website
of UK Civil Defence material
The UK Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning System
YouTube – The Story of the Thor
Web pages on the B24 Liberator aircraft:
“
Image Archive and Research/Reference Center
” W.W.II B-24 Liberator Bombers
Archived website
on Bases of the 8
th
and 9
th
USAAF in the UK
Webpage on radio callsigns of the 8
th
USAAF
392
nd
Bomb Group website
445
th
Bomb Group, the Kassel Mission on 27
th
September 1944 website
446
th
Bomb Group website
486
th
BG website
492
nd
BG at North Pickenham website
Research Websites/tools:
USAAF website
Aviation Archaeology Investigation and Research website
where MACR and other details on USAAF aircraft can be sourced
USAAF accident reports and MACR procurement website
Commonwealth war graves commission web pages
Royal Air Force History pages
US National Archives and Records Administration website
The American Battle Monuments Commission’s web pages
USAAF Resource center
United States Air Force Historical Research agency website
containing a wealth of downloadable information
World War II Allied Aircraft Crashes in the Netherlands
database
Grunt’s Military Site
Dedicated to the military and military personnel, includes details on military rank insignia, medals and ribbons as well as images, forums, military quotes and glossaries
Aircrew remembered website
containing comprehensive databases on aircrew losses and memories
Other websites of interest:
Tangmere Military Museum
Air War over Denmark
Very informative Website by Soren C Flensted
US 8
th
AF
– Fred Preller’s informative website
384
th
BG at Grafton Underwood
– Fred Preller’s informative website
Stalag Luft 1 website
Museum of Berkshire Aviation website
specialising in Miles and the Handley& Page aircraft
If you are aware of any other relevant and interesting links on the above subjects that you consider should be included here then please let us know