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Left page.
Left - city street with man bending over object on the ground and other locals in the background. Shops along side.
Top right - crowded narrow city street wit woman sitting on right and other people standing.
Bottom right - ox cart with…

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Service history. After training as navigator/observer and bomb aimer completed a tour as Stirling bomb aimer on 75 (NZ) Squadron. Rested on training tours and the second tour as Lancaster bomb aimer on 115 Squadron. Subsequent postings to India and…

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SBondS-DidwellNv10001-0008.pdf
Letter describes the challenges and problems of taking an ex-RAF Liberator that had been handed to the Indian Air Force at the end of the war and had now been donated back to the RAF for exhibition in museum. Details all the engineering work to get…

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SHarriganD[Ser#-DoB]v250002.mp3
Wilf Keyte joined the RAF in 1937 and was based with maintenance units. He was posted to RAF Scampton and RAF Henlow where he worked with the Queen Bee missile unit. He was then posted in charge of stores to the Orkneys and then RAF Swinderby. Wilf…

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SHarriganD[Ser#-DoB]v110002 BellGA.mp3
George Arthur Bell, (b. 1925), grew up in Lincolnshire. George lived around Boston at the beginning of the war. After leaving school he worked with his father as a builder, which George states was a ‘sort of reserved occupation’. George tells of the…

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LHope169139v1.pdf
Navigator’s, air bomber’s and air gunner’s flying log book one, for A D Hope, wireless operator, covering the period from 15 December 1942 to 28 April 1949. Detailing his flying training, operations flown, instructor duties and post war flying duties…

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A well where water is reached by a series of descending steps; called a 'stepwell'.

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The iron pillar of Delhi. Annotated on the reverse 'Iron Pillar of Delhi'.

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A view of the minaret Qutab Minar framed by an arch.

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Francis grew up in Teddington. After school, he went to Hawker Siddeley Aircraft, where working conditions improved with modernisation. He learnt about Hurricanes, designed by Sydney Camm. They started to build smaller aircraft units over the country…

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ABlandC150817.mp3
Charles Bland joined the Royal Air Force in February 1942 and went to RAF Halton as an Aircraft Apprentice. He tells of his training at Halton, and describes the different trades and his exams to become an Leading Aircraftsman 1st Class, where he was…

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