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New year menu
99 Squadron cooks and MT section, meal menu for new year 1945.
Tented camp
View across water of tented camp. Submitted with caption 'Our 2nd home at Pandeveswar '42 [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
Five aircrew
Five airmen wearing tropical uniform, three with garlands of flowers round their necks standing in line. A truck and trees in the background. Submitted with caption 'Sqn Ldr Ercolani, Wg Cdr Black, Flt Lt McDonald, Flt Lt Groves, WO Stanley, Digri…
Two story billets
Two story white building with trees in front. Submitted with caption 'St. Thomas Mount billets, Madras [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
The mess at Digri
Distant view of a building with archwayed veranda. Cows in the foreground. Submitted with caption 'The Mess, Digri '42 [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
Wg Cdr Lucian Brett Ercolani DSO DFC
Head an shoulders portrait of an airman wearing parachute harness and flying jacket. Submitted with caption 'Wg Cdr Lucian Brett Ercolani DSO DFC'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
Pilot in cockpit of a Liberator
A pilot looking out of the cockpit window of a Liberator. Two rows of operation tally symbols on fuselage below cockpit. Submitted with caption ' Wg Cdr Sandy Webster DSO DFC 99 Sqn Liberator Cocos Islands 1945'. Additional information kindly…
A large group of people pulling rollers
A large group of people pulling a heavy roller while British servicemen wearing tropical uniform look on. Buildings in the background. Submitted with caption 'Women pulling rollers, Asansol Apr '42 [Chota Ray via Norman Didwell]'. Additional…
99 Squadron roll of honour 1939-42
List of men and dates on 99 (Madras Precidency) bomber Squadron No 3 Group.
Airman and bomb
A grinning airman wearing uniform tunic alongside a bomb held vertical. Captioned '652826 Sgt C H Tanner WOpAG Newmarket 1940'.
Members of block E photo key
Names and positions of personnel in unidentified photograph. Submitted with caption '139 [sic] members of block E photo key.
Letter from Wing Commander R J A Ford to Captain H E Taylor
Letter commending the actions of Captain Taylors men in rescuing members of an aircraft crew.
Memo from resident naval officer Rye to officer commanding 4th Battalion the Royal Sussex Regiment.
Subject Wellington bomber crash Pett Level. Included excerpts from a report commanding the actions of two soldiers to whom the pilot probably owed his life.
99 Squadron B Flight photograph
A large group of airmen in uniform sitting and standing in five rows in front of a Handley Page Heyford. In the background a Hangar, Submitted with caption '99 sqn B flight Mildenhall 1936'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
99 Squadron B Flight pilots
Twelve airmen, wearing uniform tunic with brevet, sitting and standing in two rows in front of a Wellington. Submitted with caption '99 Sqn B Flt pilots Mildenhall Nov 38 [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.…
Eleven airmen
Eleven airmen wearing uniform tunics standing and sitting at the entrance to a brick built barrack block. Three men are annotated with first names. Submitted with caption '99 Sqn ground crew at Mildenhall spring 1939 standing L to R Ken Ryman, Tony…
99 Squadron photograph
Spread over two images. Squadron personnel sitting and standing in four rows in front of a wellington parked with hangars in the background. Captioned 'No 99 (Bomber) Squadron Royal Air Force, Mildenhall, November 1939'. Submitted with captions '99…
99 Squadron personnel
A large group of airmen sitting and standing in four rows in front of a Handley Page Heyford. In the background a hangar. Submitted with caption '99 Sqn personnel with HP Heyford, Mildenhall c.1936'. Additional information kindly provided by the…
99 Squadron personnel
A large group of airmen sitting and standing in three rows with a dog in front of a Wellington parked outside a hangar. Submitted with caption '99 Sqn personnel with Wellington LN-O Waterbeach Oct '41 [Norman Didwell]'.Additional information kindly…
A group of airmen
Thirty-eight airmen with a variety of uniform, sitting and standing in four rows in front of a single story hut. Submitted with caption '99 Sqn Waterbeach '41 [Norman Didwell]'.Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
99 Squadron aircrew
Eighteen airmen all wearing uniform tunic with brevet, sitting and standing in two rows in front of a Wellington. A dog sits in front of man in centre of front row. Submitted with caption '99 sqn Waterbeach Oct 41'. Additional information kindly…
Six airmen in front of a Wellington
Six airmen, five on a stepladder while the other stands in front. All by the port wing root of Wellington. Submitted with caption '99 Sqn's Q Queenie at Newmarket 1940 [99 Sqn]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
Five airmen in front of Wellington
Five airmen wearing uniform tunics standing in line in front of a Wellington. Submitted with caption ' A freshman crew, 99 Sqn Newmarket '40 [Norman Didwell]'. Additional information kindly provided by the donor.
Damage tail of Wellington
Image showing part of rear fuselage, tail-plane and fin of a Wellington with skin stripped away. Submitted with caption 'A Mk.I with early 99 Sqn VF- codes after a flare ignited in flight Mildenhall early 1939, pilot Sgt Atkinson [Norman Didwell]'.…
Three airmen in front of Wellington
Three airmen, two with flying jackets and the third wearing a greatcoat standing in line in front of a Wellington. Submitted with caption 'Cpl C C Pettit DFM, Wg Cdr J F Griffiths DFC, Cpl A 'Bic' Bickerstaff DFM, 99 Sqn Newmarket [Norman Didwell]'.…