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Soldier with Lancaster propeller blade
A soldier with a propeller blade. On the reverse it is identified as being from Hopgood's Lancaster.
Four gunners
Four men on top of the dam, beside their gun.
Four gunners
Four gunners shaking hands. Karl Schutte is one of the men.
Gunner painting a white ‘kill ring’ on the barrel of an anti-aircraft gun
A gunner painting a band on a 20 mm anti-aircraft gun. He is on the side of the dam.
Karl Schutte and gunners
Four man anti-aircraft crew with their gun.
Karl Schütte
Two images of Corporal Karl Schütte working on his 20 mm anti-aircraft gun.
He was credited with shooting down John Vere Hopgood’s Lancaster and a white ‘kill ring’ is painted on the barrel. On the reverse he is identified.
He was credited with shooting down John Vere Hopgood’s Lancaster and a white ‘kill ring’ is painted on the barrel. On the reverse he is identified.
Two soldiers preparing their gun
Preparations on top of the dam.
12 soldiers and an anti-aircraft gun
12 men and their gun on top of the dam.
Four anti-aircraft gunners
Two men sitting on top another two men, beside their anti-aircraft gun.
Soldiers relaxing
Four men sitting at a table with food and drink.
Anti-aircraft gun and crew
A four barreled anti-aircraft gun with a four man crew.
Anti-aircraft gun on dam top
A gun emplacement on top of the dam.
Anti-aircraft gun on roof of truncated tower
An anti-aircraft gun installed on the newly truncated tower. Behind is a barrage balloon.
Aerial views of the breached dam
Two vertical aerial photographs of the breach flooding downstream.
Halifax Down
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…
Tags: 102 Squadron; 1658 HCU; 4 Group; Advanced Flying Unit; air gunner; Air Observers School; aircrew; anti-aircraft fire; bale out; Blenheim; bomb aimer; Bombing and Gunnery School; British Flying Training School Program; Caterpillar Club; demobilisation; escaping; final resting place; H2S; Halifax; Halifax Mk 2; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Ju 88; love and romance; Me 109; memorial; military ethos; military service conditions; navigator; Pathfinders; prisoner of war; RAF Cardington; RAF Elgin; RAF Lossiemouth; RAF Pocklington; RAF West Freugh; recruitment; Red Cross; Stalag 4B; Stearman; training; Wellington; Whitley; wireless operator
Letter to Richard from a researcher
A researcher has researched the events leading to the death of Reg Johnstone.
The last sorties - operation Gisella
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…
John Heape's account of the Long March
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…
Interview with Geoffrey Kenneth Wilson
Geoffrey's story at the end of the Long March.
Two seat aircraft under fire
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.
Tags: aircrew
Two drawings
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.
Right a prisoner carrying many pots and pans walking towards a building with smoke issuing and worried man sticking his head out the door.
Tags: Do 217; prisoner of war
German bomber with crew blown out front
Airborne twin-engine German bomber with controls, dashboard, front gun and pilot ejected out of the front and airbrake open at the back.
Tags: Do 217