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MPickfordJT743068-180622-060001.jpg
List of 51 completed operations and 9 aborted on two tours.

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LPickfordJT743068v1.pdf
J T Pickford’s Flying Log Book covering the period from 13 November 1939 to 08 May 1945, detailing his training and operations flown as Air Gunner. He was stationed at RAF Evanton (8 Air Observer’s School), RAF North Weald, Northolt, Manston,…

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Map showing southern Norway and Sweden, Denmark, and North Germany.

MKnoxVD63842-240818-28.pdf
A monthly report on operations, photography, signals, armament, gunnery, bombing, navigation, flying control, gardening, operational training, accidents, air & sea rescue, organisation, aerodrome defence, equipment, public relations and honours and…

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LMoggAW175065v1.pdf
A W Mogg’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 1 August 1940 to 25 July 1945, detailing training and operations as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner and night fighter aircrew.

He was stationed at RAF Cranwell (No.1 Signals School),…

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BChandlerRChandlerEBv1.pdf
A biography of Chan's life.
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet…

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Mentions correspondence with Ken Livingston about memorial to people killed in the Blitz. Discusses record he had found from July 1945 detailing all the missing aircraft by type and country from 1942 to 1945.

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Identification card in the name of Peter Hansen with a head and shoulder portrait of Tommy attached.

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Two maps described as Top and Lower halves. A scale of 1:3000000 but with a large amount of road, railway and river detail. An inset map has distances between western european ports and the UK.
International boundaries are included from 1/4/40.

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Woman in a checked dress sitting on a table. On reverse, 'my best greetings Anna Körvel 15/2/1947 now Mörk'.

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A steamship with two funnels and life boats slung on either side of the foredeck. The name 'Storebaelt' is on her port side. Captioned, 'Nyborg, Faergen "Storebaelt"'.

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Bronze bust of General Lieutenant F R H Bulow on a pedestal under an ornamental arch.

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View along the Spang Å river with wooded banks. On reverse, 'Fredericia - East coast Jutland'.

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A beach scene with families on the sand and walking along a raised footpath behind the beach. On reverse, 'Kattegat ?' and 'Beaches'.

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View up at the road bridge spanning the Little Belt Strait. On reverse, 'the bridge across the Little belt'.

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View across a lake with wooded banks towards Købestævnet building.

Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder and Matthias Cantow of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.

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Three women and a man walk through a stone arch set in the ramparts. Two men and two women sit either side of the gate on benches. On reverse, 'old gate in the ramparts' and 'Princes gate'.

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Statue of a soldier holding a rifle in one hand and a laurel leaf branch in the other. One foot rests on a short mortar cannon. On reverse, 'The unknown soldier of the war 1898-99, when it also was Germany who attacked'.

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Three women on grass looking up at the White Water Tower in Fredericia. On reverse, 'from the ramparts'.

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Reporting on the help provided to Tommy and pilot, Stan Slater, by the Danish underground movement during their evasion. Mentions Tommy witnessing the liberation of Danish people from a prison house.

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LClydeJ1125510v1.pdf
J Clyde’s RAF Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 26 August 1942 to 23 August 1945, detailing training, operations, instructional and other duties as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.
He was stationed at RAF Yatesbury (No. 2 Signals…

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MFaircloughT1077120-220817-12.pdf
A booklet containing various documents including a certificate expressing thanks to Frederick Chr. Oscar Korvel for the help provided to evading combatants. Personal accounts of the events following the crash of a mine-laying Lancaster including the…

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MFaircloughT1077120-220817-07.pdf
Recounts events following the crash of a Lancaster in Denmark, treatment of the two dead crew members and evasion of the survivors. Includes a photograph of Tommy at his wedding and a poem.

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Programme of events to remember the crew of Lancaster ME449. Includes images of the crew: pilot, Squadron Leader Stan Slater; flight engineer, Sergeant Ken Foster; navigator, Flying Officer Stoney Mitchell; bomb aimer, Pilot Officer Merv Bertie;…

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Writing to Tommy's son Nigel, Stan references writings made by Borge Rassmussen about the evasion of five of crew members.

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