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  • Tags: Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)

SDeansJAG-MoggRv1.pdf
Transcript of an interview.

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Two cartoon sketches of Churchill head.

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Top - head of Churchill with speech bubble 'never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few'.
Bottom head of Joseph Stalin with hammer and sickle motif.

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MDeansJAG[Ser#-DoB]-251114-05.pdf
The document covers in detail the history from April 1942 to January 1945.

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YCousinsHL[Ser#-DoB]v1.pdf
Handwritten notes from January to July 1941.

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A summary of Operation Thunderclap and the bombing of Dresden with estimates of casualties.

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MHoddingRL2016564-180806-03.pdf
Book of wartime anti-Nazi cartoons.

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LReeksA649770v1.pdf
Albert Reeks’ Observer’s and Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book from 20th May 1940 until 19th January 1949. During this time trained as a wireless operator and air gunner.

Trained at No. 4 Bombing and Gunnery School, 12 Operational Training Unit.…

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A letter to Phil from Phillip Renkin. He writes that he remembers Phil's father. He discusses his own service in the RAF during and after the war.

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Page 28 of Marjorie Rogers' diary. Public holidays were announced to celebrate the end of the war in Europe.

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A second page 29 of Marjorie's diary. Two newspaper cuttings with part of the previous page, referring to the end od the war in Europe.

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Newspaper cuttings about the end of the war in Europe.

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News from around the world.

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BChandlerRChandlerEBv1.pdf
A biography of Chan's life.
He flew 95 operations as Wireless Operator / Air Gunner, Gunnery Leader and Cameraman with 49 and 617 Squadrons and survived nine days adrift in the North Sea. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and a rare Soviet…

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SKnoxVD63842v10037.pdf
Douglas describes his experiences at RAF Croft before moving to RAF Middleton-St-George. He talks of operations undertaken including one to Berlin in severe weather. Douglas references his crew; observer/navigator Jim Davidson; flight engineer George…

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Part of article reporting on a speech given by Winston Churchill concerning the future and Britain's place in the world. Is part from his Iron Curtain speech delivered on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

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EThomson[Fam]ThomsonGB440911.pdf
Acknowledges receipt of latest letter. Comments on weather and Mr Churchill being in Quebec. Continues catching up with news gossip and their activities.

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Comments on mail to and from. Catches up with news gossip and activities. Mentions Churchill's visit to invasion beaches. Continues with news, mentions his bowling and other activities. Mentions V1s. goes on with more news and gossip.

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EThomson[Fam]ThomsonGB430727.pdf
Catches up with mail to and from. Mentions possible restrictions on parcels in the future. Comments on weather and his exams. Catches up with family news. Goes on with description of activities, gardening shopping and getting ration books stamped.…

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Dick refers to an article Alexander wrote about Operation Manna. He includes his memories of this difficult time.

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MTerrasRW1050292-190503-07.pdf
Claims that the RAF is getting stronger, the nights shorter, the Luftwaffe was helpless and showing several reconnaissance photographs of damage to Hamburg. Includes a quote by Churchill 'From now on we will bomb Germany on an ever larger scale,…

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Le Courrier de l’Air No. 38, 1941

The main article mocks Hitler’s claim that he will follow his intuition to lead the armed forces. It suggests that he dismissed Field Marshal von Brauchitsch, and other military commanders, as a scapegoat…

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MichaelMyersWaymanPDF.pdf
Summarises Mike's family history, marriage, operations with 21, 90 and 139 Squadrons, awarding of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the circumstances of the crash in which Mike died together with his observer, Flight Lieutenant Sampson Clear, DFC.…

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MichaelMyersWaymanPDF-Revised.pdf
Summarises Mike's family history, marriage, operations with 21, 90 and 139 Squadrons, awarding of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the circumstances of the crash in which Mike died together with his observer, Flight Lieutenant Sampson Clear, DFC.…

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Norwegian language newspaper

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