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Jim

 

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Air Gunners Association.

Formed in March 1949, membership of the association is is restricted to airmen who trained and qualified as Air Gunners in any of the three armed forces of the Crown, although the vast majority of members served in the RAF and Air Forces of the Commonwealth. Current membership stands at approximately 1800 despite the ravages of time.

 

 

RAF Station Manby

Jim MacNaught was posted to RAF Manby in Lincolnshire to attend a Senior Armament Instructors course during August 1942-September 1942. He logged 16hrs 55mins flying in three aircraft types Blenheim, Wellington and Hampden.

Bristol Blenheim	Vickers Wellington	Handley Page Hampden

 4hrs 55min were spent on Gunnery training and 12hrs on high and low level bombing techniques.

RAF Manby opened in 1938, home to The Empire Air Armament School. Many bomb disposal techniques were invented at Manby, a hazardous operation.

By June 1940, RAF Manby housed the Joint Services Bomb Disposal School. Royal Engineers and Royal Navy demolition parties being trained alongside their RAF counterparts. In August 1940, the bomb disposal workload, generated by ever-increasing enemy activity, led to the establishment of 25 mobile BD squads, increased in manpower strength from three to 25 personnel each.

Manby later became the home of the College of Air Warfare, part of which was the School of Refresher Flying.

Air Gunners at No1 AGS Wales

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