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PChristieJO1814.jpg
Framed display with: a memorial cross on chain, air gunner brevet, Canada shoulder flash, DFC and Canadian Volunteer Service Medal 1939-45 medal ribbons, head and shoulders b/w portrait of James Christie, Medals including DFC, Air Crew Europe,…

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EYorathDKChristieF440410.jpg
Offers sympathy and commiseration over the loss of her son in a pilot training accident.

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EPowerCGChristieF431004.jpg
Congratulates family on award of Distinguished Flying Cross to James Christie. Included quote from citation.

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Christie, JO Notes-01.pdf
A short biography of life and RAF service.

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LChristieJO17256v1.pdf
Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book for J O Christie, wireless operator, covering the period from 23 September 1941 to 13 April 1943. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at 2 Wireless School…

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BBaldwinERBaldwinERv10001.jpg
Covers early life in Australia and then training in Canada and England as an air gunner. Flew operations on Lancaster with 467 Squadron at RAF Waddington. Recounts details of operations to Walcheren Island. Continues with several other anecdotes…

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LHarrisK133607v1.pdf
Flight Lieutenant Keith Harris’ RAF Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 24 January 1942 to 28 January 1944, recording training and operations as a pilot. Also includes many technical documents including “Notes re compilation of logbooks”.
He was stationed…

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NRidingEH150928-02.pdf
Short biography of Sergeant E H Riding from his birth in New South Wales, Australia, to his death over Germany on 13/14 September 1942.

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SAudisRJ[Ser#-DoB]v010010.pdf
John Glashan’s Flying Log Book from 19th October 1942 until 25th August 1944. He flew as a navigator. He trained with No. 3 Air Observers School in Canada. Attended No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School, 26 and 29 Operational Training Units and…

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PRidingEH1504.jpg
A large building with open field and puddles to the front. Caption on reverse reads "our school with officer's (sic) quarters in the background".

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PRidingEH1503.jpg
E H Riding in RAF uniform while under training, wearing cadet hat band. He is standing next to old cannon, with a car in the background.

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EMaunsellJ[Recipient][Date]-01.pdf
A letter from John Maunsell detailing his service and experiences with Bomber Command, including the training, his crew and operational duties. He was shot down in June 1944, evaded capture and returned to Britain in September 1944.

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-40.pdf
Personal notes including on a conference, civilian witness and injury reports, long range navigational aids, Squadron merges and moves, officer responsibilities, runway conditions and downgrading of files.

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MKnoxVD63842-240818-020001.jpg
A special Royal Air Force issue introducing the film, 'Wings for the Eagle', in praise of the workers of America's aircraft industry with images of airmen working on the engines of a Stirling on the cover and a P-38 and silhouettes of flying aircraft…

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PKnoxVD24010034.jpg
Notice of the engagement of Miss Patricia Anne Wiggett and Flying Officer James Crockett Davidson accompanied by images of Patricia and James, in uniform with officer's cap and observer's brevet.

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PKnoxVD24010030.jpg
An airman in uniform, officer's cap and greatcoat sits on steps leading to the door of a brick house with a broom leaning to one side. On reverse, 'Jimmie Davidson April, 1943 Sherbrooke' and 'L228'.

AMichalskiJ[Date]-01.mp3
Julian Michalski escaped from Poland at the age of twenty. He joined with other Polish evacuees in France and escaped when that country also fell. He went to North Africa and then to the Middle East before volunteering for the RAF. After arriving in…

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SKnoxVD63842v10037.pdf
Douglas describes his experiences at RAF Croft before moving to RAF Middleton-St-George. He talks of operations undertaken including one to Berlin in severe weather. Douglas references his crew; observer/navigator Jim Davidson; flight engineer George…

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SBennettDCT[Ser#-DoB]v30001.pdf
Flying log book for N Goodfellow, Navigator, covering the period from July 1943 to December 1945. Detailing his flying training, operations flown and instructor duties. He was stationed at 1 Central Navigation School RCAF Rivers, 8 (Observer’s)…

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SBennettDCT[Ser#-DoB]v20002.jpg
Thanks him for his letter and notes there was no copy of his book "Pathfinder" in any Toronto library. Mentions getting a copy and other books and article in Canada's air force magazine concerning Hudson bomber ferry.

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SBennettDCT[Ser#-DoB]v20004-0001.jpg
List of seven Hudson Mk.IIs on the first delivery flight of aircraft by the Atlantic Ferry on 10/11 November 1940. The flight was from Gander, Newfoundland, to Aldergrove, Northern Ireland, and was led by Don Bennett, the Ferry’s Flying…

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SBennettDCT[Ser#-DoB]v10031.jpg
Aircraft load sheet for Don Bennett’s world record flight across the North Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal on 20/21 July 1938 in Short S.20 Seaplane G-ADHJ ‘Mercury’, the upper half of the Mayo Composite. Crew was Don Bennett, pilot, and Jimmy…

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SBennettDCT[Ser#-DoB]v10029-0002.jpg
Don Bennett wearing Imperial Airways uniform on arrival at Boucherville, Montreal, on 21 July 1938, having flown non-stop from Foynes, Ireland. He set three world records: first commercial payload across the Atlantic; the first non-stop east-to-west…

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BSikstromCBBarberDv1.pdf
Describes Douglas Berber's service in the Royal Air Force between 1938 and 1947 with Bomber Command and, later, with Transport Command. It includes photographs. He was wounded in France, commended, reprimanded and awarded the Soviet Medal for…

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PBellC2501.jpg
Colin Bell spent eighteen months as a newly qualified pilot instructing trainees in America. He completed 50 operations as a pilot on Mosquitos on the Light Night Striking Force.
Colin talks of his entry interview into the RAF, his time at an…

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