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- Temporal Coverage is exactly "1942-02"
No 11 Flight "C" Squadron, Newquay
Tags: aircrew; Initial Training Wing; training
My Wartime Memories by Richard Yates
Tags: 19 OTU; 35 Squadron; Air Observers School; aircrew; bale out; bombing of Cologne (30/31 May 1942); Dominie; Dulag Luft; forced landing; Gneisenau; Halifax; Halifax Mk 1; Halifax Mk 2; love and romance; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Operational Training Unit; prisoner of war; Proctor; RAF Cardington; RAF Cranwell; RAF Jurby; RAF Kinloss; RAF Linton on Ouse; RAF Wyton; RAF Yatesbury; recruitment; Scharnhorst; Stalag Luft 3; Stalag Luft 6; the long march; training; Whitley; wireless operator / air gunner
Appendix VI- Table of Raids
Tags: bombing
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war
Letter from Les Pickford to his mother
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war; Red Cross
Letter concerning third batch of Ceylonese joining the RAF
Tags: aircrew; Asian heritage; C-47; ground personnel; Harvard; navigator; pilot; RAF Kenley; recruitment; Tiger Moth; training
Course photograph and newspaper cutting
Kenneth Gill 1942 Diary
Sam Saunders in Egypt
Photo 1 is HMS Sagitta from the air.
Photo 2, 3 and 4 are Sam working on a lamp.
Photo 5 is Sam playing tennis.
Photo 6 is Sam and colleague in khaki and shorts.
Photo 7 is a letter in…
Tags: 38 Squadron; mine laying; RAF Shallufa; sport; Wellington
Sam Saunder's UK Training and Malta
Photo 1 is an informal group photograph with airmen, two WAAFs and three dummies.
Photo 2 is an air-to-air view of a Wellington.
Scripts of telegrams written and sent by Douglas Hudson to parents from prisoner of war camps
Tags: prisoner of war
Scoudouc Airfield
Tags: aerial photograph; hangar; training
Three cuttings: Ciano goes, Mr Churchill in Tripoli, Rostov captured
R Purnell Log book extract
Book 1, Commencing My Life in the R.A.F. up till the End of I.T.W.
Tags: aircrew; Beaufighter; bomb aimer; entertainment; faith; ground personnel; Hurricane; Initial Training Wing; killed in action; military living conditions; military service conditions; Morse-keyed wireless telegraphy; Spitfire; sport; training; wireless operator; wireless operator / air gunner; Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
The Empire Air Training Scheme
Tags: aircrew; military discipline; Tiger Moth; training