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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Alabama"

PShattockGF18020025.jpg
Two storey red brick building with a portico entrance. Labeled 'New city hall and auditorium, Montgomery, ALA, - 4'.

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A city with houses, gardens, industrial and public buildings arranged along intersecting roads. Labeled 'Aerial view of Dothan, Ala.'

MKethroR156044-210721-05.pdf
A compilation of Rowland's service in the RAF, throughout WW2.

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EKethroRKethro[Mo-Fa]411201.pdf
Rowland writes that he has flown solo. He has been socialising with a family that moved to Canada from Leeds. The cotton fields are full of African Americans doing the labouring.

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PKethroR21010010.jpg
Seven photographs from an album.
#1 is airmen waiting for a train at Trenton station, Ontario.
#2 is airmen waiting at Camden station.
#3 and 4 are airmen socialising with the Fetners at Columbia, South Carolina. Both images have airmen on the…

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PKethroR21010008.jpg
Seven photographs from an album.
#1 is the daily parade at Maxwell Field.
#2 is the view from the YMCA, New York.
#3 and 4 are views from the Empire State building, New York.
#5 is a Stearman at Camden with Sid and Jack.
#6 is huts at Maxwell…

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PKethroR21010007.jpg
Six photographs from an album.
#1 is Jim (Columbia), a dog.
#2 is Leading Aircraftman Pritchard's grave. He was killed taking off on his first solo at Camden.
#3 is an airman identified as Payne, studying for.
#4 is an airman, Chris Bailey.…

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PKethroR21010006.jpg
Three photographs from an album.
#1 is Rowland in leather flying kit. Behind is a row of Stearmans. It is captioned 'Camden S.C.'
#2 is three airmen in khaki, captioned 'Three Yobs. Maxwell Field'.
#3 is a large wooden hut identified as Maxwell…

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PKethroR21010005.jpg
Five photographs from an album.
#1 is an unidentified city view.
#2 is the airmen's bunks at Camden.
#3 is two airmen at Camden. Behind are rows of Stearmans.
#4 is seven airmen in khaki, captioned 'Some of the boys'.
#5 is the pistol range at…

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PKethroR21010004.jpg
Six photographs from an album.
#1 is a street scene, 34 Street, New York.
#2 and 3 are different views of the frozen St Lawrence River, Canada.
#4 is two men in gym clothes. identified as 'Jack and Taffy'.
#5 is a public park, Main Park,…

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PKethroR21010003.jpg
Six photographs from an album.
#1 is an airman in khaki and leather flying jacket and trousers. He is identified as Graham (Turnover) Eider.
#2 is several airmen. Two are identified as Jack and our Instructor'.
#3 is an airman in flying kit,…

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PKethroR21010002.jpg
Three photographs from an album.
#1 is three men standing in front of wooden huts. They are captioned 'Local lads at Maxwell Field'.
#2 is a view of Montgomery taken from the US State building.
#3 is an airman leaning on a car, captioned 'Maxwell…

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EGriffinLShattockGF431213-0001.jpg
Letter to Geoff asking for his news, lamenting the death of both someone known to her and and David who trained with Geoff. It also includes a review of her families lives and how things have changed in the year since Geoff was in the USA.

PShattockGF18010021.jpg
First is of four trainees including Geoff with shouldered rifles, posed in a carpark, caption Tom, Dave, Sid and myself taken outside our barracks, Maxwell Field, Nov 1941 . Second is of Geoff and two other trainees posed outside their barracks.…

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The front page of Maxwell Field newspaper for November 15th 1941. There is a photograph and mention in an article reporting the arrival of a new batch of trainees, 750 of which were British. On the reverse Geoff has recorded a timetable for a day at…

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LShattockGF1317240v1.pdf
Geoffrey Shattock’s RCAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 19 December 1941 to 21 June 1946, detailing training and operations as a pilot and flying instructor, including post-war duties in Transport Command. He was stationed at: Souther Field Americus…

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MShattockGF1317240-180311-05.pdf
Covers a wide variety subjects including the details of life at the base and the progress of the war in the SW Pacific.

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MGallupR171215-170521-06.jpg
A diploma awarded to Roy

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MGallupR171215-170521-05.jpg
A certificate awarded to Toy for satisfactorily completing a course of Instrument Flying.

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LScottEW188329v2.pdf
Pilots flying log book for Eric Scott from 23 November 1941 to 17 July 1942. It covers his initial flying training in England and then in Florida and Alabama in the USA. Aircraft flown were Tiger Moth, Stearman, Vultee and Harvard. He landed on a…

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PScottEW17020067.jpg
Top - colour artwork postcard of a Harvard with United States markings fling above cloud. Captioned 'Advanced Trainer during High Altitude Flight, Craig Field, Selma, Ala'.
Bottom - view through trees of a multi-story brick building behind high…

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PScottEW17020066.jpg
Top - colour artwork postcard showing a tall column monument with statue on top to the left and a white building on the right all surrounded by trees. Captioned 'State Capitol showing Confederate Monument. Montgomery Ala - 14'.
Bottom - upside down…

PScottEW17020050.jpg
Air-to-air view of a single engine low wing monoplane with single pilot in front cockpit. Aircraft number '0893'. Captioned 'BT 13, Gunter Field, Montgomery, Alabama, May 1942'.

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PScottEW17020049.jpg
Top left - part of a house. captioned 'Boyce Street'.
Top middle - view looking up a monument column with statue at the bottom.
Top right - a fountain in the foreground and formal rectangular park extending into the distance where a tall structure…

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PScottEW17020048.jpg
Top left - colour artwork postcard of view across a river with trees on far bank and city in the distance. Captioned 'M-14 - Scene on Alabama River by Moonlight, Montgomery, Ala'.
Bottom left - colour artwork postcard of a white three story mansion…