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- Collection: Twells, Ernie. Album
Ernie Twells' Obituary and letter from the King
A letter from the King awarding Ernie Twells his Distinguished Flying Cross.
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; aircrew; Cheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992); Distinguished Flying Cross; fitter engine; flight engineer; George VI, King of Great Britain (1895-1952); ground crew; Lancaster; Operation Catechism (12 November 1944); RAF Swinderby; RAF Woodhall Spa; Tirpitz; V-1; V-2; V-weapon
Ernie Twells' Operations
Tags: 617 Squadron; 619 Squadron; bombing; bombing of Hamburg (24-31 July 1943); bombing of Kassel (22/23 October 1943); bombing of the Boulogne E-boats (15/16 June 1944); bombing of the Juvisy, Noisy-le-Sec and Le Bourget railways (18/19 April 1944); bombing of the Le Havre E-boat pens (14/15 June 1944); Bombing of the Saumur tunnel (8/9 June 1944); bombing of the Siracourt V-weapon site (25 June 1944); bombing of the Watten V-2 site (19 June 1944); bombing of the Wizernes V-2 site (20, 22, 24 June 1944); Normandy campaign (6 June – 21 August 1944); Normandy deception operations (5/6 June 1944)
Ernie Twells' recommendation for D.F.C.
Flight Lieutenant Bob Knights and crew
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew; flight engineer; Lancaster; pilot
Gnome Rhone works
Lancaster
A three Ruble banknote, dated 1938.
Tags: Lancaster
Lancaster
An embroidered 617 squadron crest.
Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster
Lancaster in flight
Tags: Lancaster
Lancaster with mid gun turret removed
Lancasters at Yagodnik
Tags: 617 Squadron; 9 Squadron; Lancaster; Tirpitz
Leonard Cheshire and officer
A civilian and two airmen under a Lancaster with a mocked up bouncing bomb during the filming of The Dam Busters. Standing with…
Letter to 617 Squadron Association from the Private Secretary of the Queen of the Netherlands
Tags: 617 Squadron
Munich and of the Tirpitz
A target photograph of the…
Six Airmen
Photograph 2 is a group of 36 airmen seated and standing in three rows in front of a Beaufighter.
Photograph 3 is a group of 29 trainee airmen and a woman arranged in three…
Starboard engines, Lancaster
Tags: 617 Squadron; Lancaster; Tirpitz
Tirpitz
On the reverse
'Battleship Tirpitz
Walter Hugin
46 Do-Huckarde
Servahust sh. 19'
Picture 2 Captioned 'Signatures of Survivors on back of each photo'.
Tags: Tirpitz
Tirpitz capsized
'Battleship Tirpitz
Tirpitz 15 June 1945'.
Veterans on way to reunion
Tags: 617 Squadron; aircrew