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  • Temporal Coverage is exactly "1940"

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Group of 21 aircrew, commissioned and non-commissioned, all wearing pilot brevet, with a Hurricane on each side. Hangar doors behind. Douglas Bader is sitting in the centre of the front row, wearing Squadron Leader's rank.

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Ethel Smith (née Hanson) discusses her early life and her time in the WAAF. She joined aged 21, and remembers the camaraderie. She worked as a rigger at Number 12 Balloon Centre and was later posted to RAF Titchfield near Portsmouth. She discusses…

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MPriorAE115734-180830-01.pdf
List promotions, squadrons and units, orders and decorations. Crew of special duties squadron lost in Halifax from 161 and 138 Squadrons on night of March 14 1943. Commonwealth war graves commission infomation on graves. Information held by RAF…

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Full length image of an airman wearing tunic with pilot's brevet standing arm in arm with a woman wearing flowered dress in a back garden. On the reverse 'summer 1940, Coventry, Mum and Dad'.

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Shows six flights in Lancaster (PD328 - Aries) while on detachment to test & development section, Empire air navigation school RSF Shawbury and the stations Met office and RAF.
Bottom left is b/w head and shoulders portrait of an RAF officer…

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MEdmondsWGC19110923-220115-02.pdf
Page showing sorties up to the one in Anson on which he crashed on 4 March 1940 and his first trip on return to duty on 10 October 1941.

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LEdmondsWGC19110923v1.pdf
Walter Edmonds’ Pilot’s Flying Log Book from 30th May 1939 until 30th January 1945. During this time he trained as a pilot. Trained at No. 7 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, No. 13 Flying Training School. Posted to 76 Squadron in…

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Marguerite Aggett in Bombay, en route to Australia.

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Ordnance Survey map of North Midlands and Lincolnshire, headed MILITARY EDITION and NOT TO BE PUBLISHED.

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List with photographs of all ex-pupils who gave their lives in the second world war. Robert Greer on page 9. Notes he joined RAF in October 1940 and was shot down over Austria 22/23 March 1945 while piloting a Liberator. A number of other RAF airmen…

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LWolffJR908703v1.pdf
Jack Wolff’s Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 13th October 1940 until 31st October 1952. He trained as a wireless operator and air gunner.
Initial training at No. 1 Air Observer and Navigation School, followed by No. 2 Signals…

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SDeansJAG-MoggRv1.pdf
Ronald was as navigator in a Wellington shot down over Osnabruck 30 October 1940. He was interrogated and then detained in Dulag Luft, Stalag Luft I (Barth), Stalag Luft 3 (Sagan), Stalag Luft 6 (Heydekrug), Stalag XX-A (Thorun) and the…

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Cartoon single seat fighter with worried pilot while bullets fly past. Captioned 'Drawing by Sgt obs [sic] GCG Todd. Hawkins in a German prison camp 1940'.

This caption is in the handwriting of Todd’s mother, Susannah Jane Hawkins (1884-1963). It…

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List of months and some days from August 1940 to November 1942.

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Brown envelope with text 'cards and letters 1940-41'

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Radio interview with Ron Mogg, Dixie Deans, Peter Thomas and Cyril Aynsley following the publication of, “The Sergeant Escapers” written by Ron Mogg. General conversation about the democratic make up of the prisoner of war camps they were held in,…

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Dixie Dean was shot down over the German/Dutch border and became a prisoner of war. He was elected as camp leader at the first prisoner of war camp which was a post he maintained at all further camps where he was held. He sent/received coded messages…

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BAllisonTAllisonTv1.pdf
Bomber Command wartime memoirs 1939-45 by Ted Allison. He completed 35 bomber operations as wireless operator/air gunner 1941-43, which he described as being looked down upon. The introduction describes his role as a Wop/Ag and how they're replaced…

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A biographical summary of David Craven's RAF service as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner and later as a Wireless Instructor. He completed two tours of operations, took part in the opening of the Ruhr Campaign in March 1943 and was awarded the…

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Twenty six airmen in uniform standing and crouching outside. The photograph is annotated with crosses above the heads of two men on the back row. Caption reads: 'RAFVR 1939/40 Prestwick LAC D Craven 3rd left top row'.

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Leaflet printed in German

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Stan, in uniform stands next to his wife, Edith. She is wearing a skirt and jacket, hat and buttonhole.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

The item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive in digital form:…

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MBatchelderHE1262838-190626-06.pdf
An article written 40 years after the start of the war describing the role and functions of the RAF Ex-Prisoner of War Association. Quotes are included from honorary member Prince Philip. An Irish airman called Larry Slattery who baled out on 3…

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A summary listing key events in Harold Batchelder's life from his birth in April 1920 to his retirement in October 1985.

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A record of the RAF career of E. Tucker; it details his career from when he signed up in 1939, to his final position in 1940. It also states that Tucker was killed in action. Written in a letter to Mrs. P. Tucker, who had previously asked to see…

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