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The memoir describes, in detail, Moore's life as a civilian in Leicester, his RAF aircrew training and as an air bomber in Bomber Command. On leaving school in 1938 Moore worked as a junior auditor and a typist before joining the Royal Air Force…

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A researcher has researched the events leading to the death of Reg Johnstone.

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From book by Alfred Price. Covers one of the last operations by Luftwaffe night fighters against Lancaster attacking Kamen and Ladbergen where the fighters followed the allied bombers back to England and attacked RAF stations as well as shooting down…

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An account of the march from Stalag 357 (Fallingbostel). On 8 April 1945 the camp commander (Oberst Hermann Ostman) ordered 12,000 British troops to be evacuated, marching from the camp in columns of 2,000. After ten days they arrived at Gresse here…

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Geoffrey's story at the end of the Long March.

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View of cockpit of two-seat, single-engine fighter with bemused gunner being attacked by twin engine German aircraft, whose bullets bounce off pilot's head.

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Left side - a Dornier aircraft in a dive with airbrakes out and crew with cockpit ejected from the front.
Right a prisoner carrying many pots and pans walking towards a building with smoke issuing and worried man sticking his head out the door.

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Cut out b/w photographs of a Blenheim and below a Ju-87 with flames from rear.

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Airborne twin-engine German bomber with controls, dashboard, front gun and pilot ejected out of the front and airbrake open at the back.

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The eyewitness account describes the shooting down of the bomber aircraft by a night fighter of Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 at Venlo.
The witness describes the stricken bomber as a "huge firebal [sic]". It goes on to describe the precise location of the…

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A Luftwaffe guard holding rifle with bayonet pointing at prisoner with arched back and shouting 'Raus!' (Out!) Captioned 'and somehow I knew'.

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Alfred Lengart was a gunner in the German Army on duty at the Möhne Dam on the night of Operation Chastise. Many years later he was invited to the Yorkshire Air Museum for the opening of the Barnes Wallis Museum. During the opening he delivered a…

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Information concerning Flying Officer Fritz Gutezeit and his wireless operator Sergeant Heinz Jamischewski who were killed on 20 May 1942 near St Froud [Sint-Truiden] airport when their Messerschmidt ME110 collided with a bomber. Both men were…

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Jacqui Whitehead talks of how she has been involved with veterans, remembrance, and the Air Gunners Association over the last thirty years. She discusses stories of reconciliation, and how the Flightpath of Friendship and Reconciliation became a…

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A Junkers 52 dropping parachutists over Rotterdam.

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The city showing bomb damage. On reverse, 'The city centre of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Showing destruction wrought by German dive-bombers in 1940'.

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Book with photographs of six aircraft each of 40 pages with opposite lined page for notes. Some are identified.

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On the left a notice that a watch found amongst belongings was property of British Air Ministry and had been confiscated. On the right a German receipt made out to George Thomson. Mentions Stalag Luft 7.

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Short account of shooting down of 15 Squadron Lancaster NF958 (LS-M) by Ofw Ludwig Schmitt in Messerschmitt 110G-2. Two crew killed and the other prisoner of war. List crew including George Thomson (navigator). Includes painting of the incident.

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Drawn map showing layout of camp.

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Ju 87 Pilots and operators guide

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List of aircraft with corresponding wingspan.

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Vertical aerial photograph of Staryi Saltiv with caption in German. Several features along the Donets River are numbered and circled. Handwritten annotation 'Starys - Ssaltoff' on lower right side of image. Handwritten annotation on reverse "etwa…

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An Me 262 parked on dispersal with trees behind.

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From printed book a photograph of crack in leading edge of the wing of He 111 which had run into cable of barrage balloon. Reverse has photograph of torpedo loading on a Beaufort.

This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital…

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