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- Spatial Coverage is exactly "Manitoba"
Halifax Down
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
En route Winnipeg to Halifax
Top left: Steam engine number 4022.
2nd row left: Steam engine.
3rd row left: Two men in uniform sit side by side at a table eating.
Bottom left: Two men n uniform lean against…
Tags: aircrew
Winnipeg scenes
-top left: Union Station, Winnipeg
-top left: Winnipeg Cenotaph
-middle left: bronze bison statues inside the Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg
-middle right: Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg
- bottom left: Broadway…
Tags: memorial
RCAF Rivers
Top left: Frontage of a single storey brick building with a sign above the door reading, 'Rivers Post Office'.
Top right: Two storey square building with bell tower above and a sign reading, 'Town Hall'.
Middle left: View across a river…
Tags: Air Gunnery School; aircrew; RCAF Rivers; training
A Basic Air Navigation Course in 1943
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Bomber Command Career 1942-49
A second copy includes some photographs.
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 1654 HCU; 17 OTU; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; 8 Group; 83 Squadron; 9 Squadron; 97 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; bombing of Dresden (13 - 15 February 1945); Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Cook’s tour; Cornell; crash; Distinguished Flying Cross; ditching; entertainment; FIDO; Flying Training School; Gee; Gibson, Guy Penrose (1918-1944); H2S; Heavy Conversion Unit; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); lack of moral fibre; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; Lincoln; mess; military living conditions; military service conditions; mine laying; navigator; Nissen hut; Operation Dodge (1945); Operation Exodus (1945); Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; radar; RAF Binbrook; RAF Cardington; RAF Carlisle; RAF Castel Benito; RAF Coningsby; RAF Dumfries; RAF Harrogate; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Hunmanby Moor; RAF Lindholme; RAF Lissett; RAF Metheringham; RAF Shallufa; RAF Shawbury; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Thorney Island; RAF Warboys; RAF Wigsley; RCAF Brandon; RCAF Caron; RCAF Estevan; RCAF Moncton; sport; Stirling; target indicator; Tiger force; Tiger Moth; training; Victoria Cross; Wellington; Window; wireless operator
My First Operation
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: 106 Squadron; 5 Group; 617 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; aircrew; Anson; anti-aircraft fire; bomb aimer; briefing; coping mechanism; Cornell; fear; Flying Training School; Gee; H2S; Halifax; Heavy Conversion Unit; Home Guard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; master bomber; military ethos; military service conditions; Mosquito; navigator; Nissen hut; Operational Training Unit; RAF Cardington; RAF Dumfries; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Lissett; RAF Metheringham; RAF Silverstone; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; RAF Woodhall Spa; RCAF Estevan; RCAF Moncton; Spitfire; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Airmen
#1 Two airmen in flying kit. One is holding an aerial camera. The other is LAC Newberry.
#2 Two airmen in office uniform. They are standing on a snowy landscape.
#3 a head and shoulders portrait of LAC Newberry,…
Tags: aircrew
24 airmen
In accordance with the conditions stipulated by the donor, this collection is available only at the University of Lincoln.
Tags: aircrew
Avro Anson and group of airmen.
On the reverse is written:…
Tags: Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; hangar; observer; RCAF Rivers; training
No. 3 Wireless School, Manitoba
Tags: aircrew; training; wireless operator
N Goodfellow's flying log book
Tags: 16 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1656 HCU; 1660 HCU; 1661 HCU; 50 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Finishing School; navigator; Operational Training Unit; Oxford; RAF Ludford Magna; RAF Mona; RAF Pocklington; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Upper Heyford; RCAF Rivers; Stirling; training; Wellington
Donald Andrew’s Observer’s and air gunner’s flying log book
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 1660 HCU; 207 Squadron; 49 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bombing; Heavy Conversion Unit; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; mine laying; navigator; Operation Dodge (1945); Operational Training Unit; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Fiskerton; RAF Saltby; RAF Spilsby; RAF Staverton; RAF Wigsley; Stirling; training; Wellington
Service history of Richard Stuart
Richard took part in 22 operations to Berlin, Frankfurt, Hagen, Hannover, Kassel, Leipzig, Mannheim,…
Tags: 14 OTU; 1654 HCU; 61 Squadron; air gunner; aircrew; Beaufighter; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); crash; final resting place; flight engineer; Heavy Conversion Unit; Ju 88; killed in action; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; missing in action; navigator; Operational Training Unit; pilot; RAF Catfoss; RAF Skellingthorpe; RAF Swinderby; RAF Syerston; RAF Wigsley; searchlight; training; wireless operator
The letters of Eric Lloyd during World War Two
Wings dinner
Right: Christmas dinner menu with autographs.
Tags: Flying Training School; training
I've gone solo
Right: Programme and menu for the 59th graduating class. Includes a list of class members, including Flight Lieutenant H Cooke, and…
Tags: aircrew; Flying Training School; pilot; training
Pilot navigation
Tags: training
Horace Cooke's pilot's flying log book
The…
Tags: aircrew; Anson; Battle; Blenheim; Bombing and Gunnery School; Cornell; Flying Training School; Hampden; Harvard; Initial Training Wing; Lancaster; Lancaster Mk 1; Lancaster Mk 3; Operational Training Unit; Pathfinders; pilot; RAF Acklington; RAF Benson; RAF Burnaston; RAF Cottesmore; RAF Cranwell; RAF Finningley; RAF Heaton Park; RAF Hemswell; RAF Oakington; RAF Polebrook; RAF Prestwick; RAF Torquay; RAF Warboys; RAF Waterbeach; RAF Wattisham; RAF West Freugh; RCAF Dauphin; Stirling; Tiger Moth; training; Wellington
Charles Hilder's observers and air gunners flying log book
Tags: 115 Squadron; 12 OTU; 1665 HCU; 218 Squadron; Advanced Flying Unit; Air Observers School; aircrew; Anson; Battle; Berlin Campaign (23 August 1943 – 25 March 1944); Blenheim; Bolingbroke; bomb aimer; bombing; Bombing and Gunnery School; Botha; Heavy Conversion Unit; killed in action; Lancaster; mine laying; missing in action; Operational Training Unit; RAF Chipping Warden; RAF Downham Market; RAF Waterbeach; RAF West Freugh; RAF Witchford; RAF Woolfox Lodge; RCAF Lethbridge; RCAF Winnipeg; Stirling; training; Wellington
Sergeant McMahon's address book
Tags: aircrew; prisoner of war